Spiller, Robert Ernest,  1896- <br/><br/>
The oblique light :  studies in literary history and biography / 
by Robert E. Spiller. 
 - New York :  Macmillan,  [1968]. 
 - viii, 279 p.  22 cm. 
 - 810.9 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Benjamin Franklin: student of life.--Franklin on the art of being human.--Fenimore Cooper: the critical American in England.--Second thoughts on Cooper as a social critic.--A case for W. E. Channing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson: man thinking.--The mind and art of Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The private novel of Henry Adams.--Henry Adams: man of letters.--Sidney Lanier: ancestor of anti-realism.--Edmund Wilson: the dual role of criticism.--The English literary horizon: 1815-35.--The American in Europe: then and now.--Those early days: a personal memoir. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9