 I'm afraid to go home in the dark." That was in the summer of 1910. Since his death, his fame in America has grown greater and greater with every year. The laurel wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave....  O. Henry Biography - Pagina 9di Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 258 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 pagine
...etc., and I am positively declining in every case." There has thus grown up a sort of O. Henry myth. "It threatens to attain," said the New York Sun five...the chapter on "The Amazing Genius of O.: Henry" (in Essays and Library Stadia.) A London reviewer of Mr. Leacock 's book singles out for special praise... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1916 - 486 pagine
...Canadian critic, Stephen Leacock, in a essay entitled The Amazing Genius of 0. Henry, has written: "The time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking...him one of the great masters of modern literature." Manifestly, to study the work of this modern crowned classic is to study the minds of those who crowned... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - 1916 - 326 pagine
...The laurel wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognise in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature. 266 A REHABILITATION OF CHARLES... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - 1916 - 328 pagine
...The laurel wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognise in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature. 266 A REHABILITATION OF CHARLES... | |
 | O. Henry - 1917 - 332 pagine
...The laurel wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognize in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature. 195 O. HENRY: AN ENGLISH VIEW BY A. ST. JOHN... | |
 | O. Henry - 1917 - 332 pagine
...wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the tune is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognize in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature. 195 O. HENRY: AN ENGLISH VIEW BY A. ST. JOHN... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 360 pagine
...an essay entitled "The Amazing Genius of O. Henry," and in it he has dared to use words like these: "The time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking...him one of the great masters of modern literature." Some of the most discriminating of scholars both in America and abroad have found joy in him : the... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 364 pagine
...an essay entitled "The Amazing Genius of O. Henry," and in it he has dared to use words like these: "The time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking...recognize in him one of the great masters of modern 10 Side-Lights on American Literature literature." Some of the most discriminating of scholars both... | |
 | O. Henry - 1917 - 332 pagine
...wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the tune is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognize in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature. O. HENRY: AN ENGLISH VIEW BY A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK... | |
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