id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3296 Studies in Classic American Literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 776 117 68 Studies in Classic American Literature Wikipedia Studies in Classic American Literature Cover of the first edition Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. Edmund Wilson described Studies in Classic American Literature as "one of the few first-rate books that have ever been written on the subject" despite "shots that do not hit the mark and moments that are quite hysterical."[1] The critic Harold Bloom listed Studies in Classic American Literature in his The Western Canon (1994) as one of the books that have been important and influential in Western culture.[2] Lawrence's work is generally credited with contributing to the restoration of Herman Melville as a seminal figure in American literature.[3] Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), edited by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-55016-5 This article about a non-fiction book on literature or literary criticism is a stub. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3296.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3296.txt