...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple...daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.27 The 'items' James provides are thus, in the first instance, designed to enumerate the resources...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple...as is happily the case with my dear native land." As early as 1832, on the other hand, Kennedy had felt that "the under-currents of country-life are...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple...as is happily the case with my dear native land." The perusal of Hawthorne's American Note-Books operates as a practical commentary upon this somewhat...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, not anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple...daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. From the author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, one takes this to be a piece...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case in my dear native land.' And again: 'I have another great difficulty in the lack of materials; for...

...shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart Republic, or in any characteristic and probable...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple...daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. In fact, of course, the actualities in Hawthorne's dear native land in 1860 were both more interesting...

...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple...as is happily the case with my dear native land." The challenge to furnish the nation with a native literature and culture preoccupied American artists...

...picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily' (it must and shall be happily) 'the case with my dear native land. It will...stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruins to make...