Hamilton Wright Mabie 
Backgrounds of Literature (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

Published in 1903, this collection of essays focuses on writers and the locales they inhabited which most prominently inspired them.  Chapters include ‘The Lake Country and Wordsworth, ‘ ‘Emerson and Concord, ‘ ‘The Washington Irving Country, ‘ ‘Weimar and Goethe, ‘ ‘The Land of Lorna Doone, ‘ ‘America in Whitman’s Poetry, ‘ and ‘The Land of Scott.’

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