Letters from an American Farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Commentator · English
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Letters from an American Farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Commentator · English
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INTRODUCTION Hazlitt wrote that of the three notable writers whom the eighteenth century had produced, in the North American colonies, one was "the author (whoever he was) of the American Farmer's Letters." Crevecoeur was that unknown author; and Hazlitt said further of him that he rendered, in his own vividly characteristic manner, "not only the objects, but the feelings, of a new country." Great is the essayist's relish for passages descriptive of "a battle between two snakes," of "t
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