Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2

· 1968

_Richard Hickman Menefee_. 1907 _Kentuckians in History and Literature_. 1907 _The Life of James Francis Leonard_. 1909 _Kentucky: Mother of Governors_. 1910 _Lore of the Meadowland_. 1911 Mr. Townsend's fellow countrymen must feel themselves to be put under a beautiful obligation to him by his work entitled _Kentucky in American Letters_. He has thus fenced off for the lovers of New World literature a well watered bluegrass pasture of prose and verse, which they may enter and range through according to their appetites for its peculiar green provender and their thirst for the limestone spring. This strip of pasture is a hundred years long; its breadth may not be politely questioned!…

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