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The Roving Critic

by Carl Van Doren

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  1. 1Note — Dedication
  2. 2Epigraph — I. Toward a Creed
  3. 3The Revenge of the Bards
  4. 4Creative Reading
  5. 5II | Three of Our Conquerors
  6. 6Whitman in His Crises
  7. 7The Lion and the Uniform
  8. 8III | Two Notes on Youth
  9. 9Youth Is Always Right
  10. 10IV | Howells: May 1920 Eulogium
  11. 11V | Nooks and Fringes
  12. 12What the Fathers Read
  13. 13The Kind Mother of Us All
  14. 14Mocha Dick
  15. 15Folk-Lore in Kentucky
  16. 16Paul Bunyan Goes West
  17. 17The Worst American Book
  18. 18At the Saturday Club
  19. 19The Silver Age of Our Literature
  20. 20John Burroughs
  21. 21Broad House and Narrow House
  22. 22Good Names
  23. 23Pictures of the Past
  24. 24The Great Laboratory
  25. 25VI | Long Roads
  26. 26Justice or Melodrama?
  27. 27The Corruption of Comfort
  28. 28“God Is Not Dead of Old Age”
  29. 29VII | Short Cuts
  30. 30In Lieu of the Laureate
  31. 31“Murdering Beauty”
  32. 32Chairs
  33. 33Inishmore, Inishmaan, Inisheer
  34. 34Sweetness or Light
  35. 35Crowning the Bishop
  36. 36VIII | A Casual Shelf
  37. 37Golden Lyrics
  38. 38The Christian Diplomat
  39. 39Lawyer and Elegist
  40. 40Women in Love
  41. 41Moses in Massachusetts
  42. 42Brown Girls
  43. 43Invention and Veracity
  44. 44A Hero With His Posse
  45. 45Maria and Batouala
  46. 46Stupid Scandal
  47. 47The Muse of Knickerbocker
  48. 48IX | Poets’ Corner
  49. 49Through Ellis Island
  50. 50Tap-Root or Melting-Pot?
  51. 51X | In the Open
  52. 52Lake and Bird
  53. 53Fireflies in Cornwall
  54. 54Gardens

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