Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...volume is written with fluency and naturalness of style. Justly emphasized throughout is the Americanism of Longfellow; while he was the first among American poets to create for himself a world-wide fame, and added to our poetry great cosmopolitan richness, he was guided from youth to age by the strongest national feeling. The author also shows clearly the often unnoticed service of Longfellow--beyond the stimulus caused by the remarkable sweetness and cheerfulness of his life and poetry--that of being in an eminently practical country the first conspicuous representative of the literary life. Mr. Higginson's estimate...
...Cosmopolitan--"Captains of Industry," by H. H. Rogers...
...Cosmopolitan--"Cecil John Rhodes," by J. B. Walker...
Daudet's first success, "Risler aine," shows the influence of Flaubert. In the "Nabab" and in "Les Rois en exil," not the customs of France, but the life of a cosmopolitan public is depicted. It is in "Numa Roumestan," in the "Tartarius," and especially in his marvelous short stories that we get a picture of life and manners in Southern France...
...modern novelists have chiefly described only the exterior cosmopolitan life of a band of pleasure-seeking people, who, though styling themselves Parisians, are not true Frenchmen. What M. LeRoux purposes to study in his lectures, is not the caricaturists, but the painters of the French home life, which is so little known abroad. Many of these writers are known personally to M. Le Roux, and it is through them that the various aspects of true French can be seen...