初访新英格兰__William Dean Howells.pdf

英文名著3000 本 First Visit to New England by William Dean Howells 1 英文名著3000 本 CONTENTS: Bibliographical My First Visit to New England First Impressions of Literary New York 2 英文名著3000 本 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its great exemplars during the twenty-five years I lived near them.In fact, I had meant to do this from the time I came among them; but I let the days in which I almost constantly saw them go by without record save such as I carried in a memory retentive, indeed, beyond the common,but not so full as I could have wished when I began to invoke it for my work. Still, upon insistent appeal, it responded in sufficient abundance; and, though I now wish I could have remembered more instances,I think my impressions were accurate enough. I am sure of having tried honestly to impart them in the ten years or mre when I was desultorily endeavoring to share them 3 英文名著3000 本 with the reader. The papers were written pretty much in the order they have here,beginning with My First Visit to New England, which dates from the earliest eighteen-nineties, if I may trust my recollection of reading it from the manuscript to the editor of Harpers Magazine, where we lay under the willow