James Brander Matthews, though almost unknown today, was one of the major critics of his generation. In December 1893, shortly before he turned forty-two, a number of the decade's most prominent liter...
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Brander Matthews has been described as "perhaps the last of the gentlemanly school of critics and essayists that distinguished American literature in the last half of the nineteenth century." The desc...
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Brander Matthews