TY - BOOK AU - Spiller,Robert Ernest TI - The oblique light: studies in literary history and biography U1 - 810.9 PY - 1968///] CY - New York PB - Macmillan KW - American literature KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 ER -