Studies in Classic American Literature

The proper role of a critic according to Lawrence is to protect the story from the author. He has revealed the American whole soul in some of that country's greatest literary works in these profoundly personal insightful articles. Lawrence has produced a classic work by attempting to elevate the status of works by authors like Poe Melville Fenimore Cooper and Whitman. Studies in Classic American Literature is significant not only for the insight it provides into the American mentality of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries telling the truth of the day but also as a shining example of Lawrence's knowledge fervour and moral purity.