Gummere explores the attitudes toward the classics of seven prominent colonial Americans--Hugh Jones, Robert Calef, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Davies, Henry Melhior Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine. Each of them was essentially pragmatic and judged the value of the classics not only on the basis of their intrinsic worth but also for their relevance to contemporary problems.
- ISBN13 9780674284500
- Publish Date 1 January 1967
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 114
- Language English
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