...the Arts, for Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? ... When these questions are fairly and favourably answered, their laudatory epithets may be allowed:...

...charges as those leveled by the Reverend Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review in 1820 when he asked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" And they agreed with Henry James's litany of American deficiencies: "no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor...

...an American culture. In Adams' day, we were struggling. English critic Sydney Smith wrote in 1815, “In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?” I have the answer for him 180 years later: the whole world reads American books. And our National Endowment...

...1990s. 1819 TEXTS 1820 1821 pressing a general belief in the paucity of American literature, asks, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" The American Colonization Society founds Liberia in order to provide a home for emancipated slaves...

...Smith's notorious rhetorical question in the 1820 Edinburgh Review, familiar to him from childhood: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" Carrying republican progressiveness into literature as well as into life was the stuff of many a nationalistic...

...author, made his infamous attack on American culture in the Edinburgh Review. "In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?"44 Clearly, for many observers of the American scene before and after Tocqueville, New York...

...wrote on the American literary situation, asking his now infamous question in the Edinburgh Review. "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" (Ruland 1972: 157). The agonized response of American writers, publishers, and men of letters to Smith's...

...popularity and reputation are perhaps fairly easy to define. To Sydney Smith's notorious question of 182.0, 'in the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book,' Sedgwick provided an answer. Her novels were noteworthy for their use of American materials - settings,...

...air of the New World had induced a deterioration). In 1820, the English essayist Sydney Smith asked: "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" This delightful member of the clergy was, in fact, well disposed toward Americans, except for their...

...looking for confirmation that American artists and writers could refute the famous taunt of Sydney Smith: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Dunlap would later feature Cole in his History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the...