A strong distinguishing feature of this body of fiction is the large part
played by natural scenes. Allen shows unusual skill in employing nature to
heighten his effects. If the poetic and vivid scenes were removed from
Cable's stories, they would lose a large part of their charm. When Miss
Murfree chooses eastern Tennessee for the scene of her novels, she never
permits the mountains to be forgotten. These writers are lovers of nature
as well as of human beings. The romantic prose fiction as well as the
poetry is invested with color and beauty.
REFERENCES
Page's _The Old South_.
Page's _Social Life in Old Virginia before the War_.
Hart's _Slavery and Abolition_.
Baskerville's _Southern Writers_, 2 vols.
Link's _Pioneers of Southern Literature_, 2 vols.
Moses's _The Literature of the South_.
Holliday's _A History of Southern Literature_.
Manly's _Southern Literature_.
Painter's _Poets of the South_.
Woodberry's _The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and Literary, with his
chief Correspondence with Men of Letters,_ 2 vols., 1909. (The best life.)
Woodberry and Stedman's _The Works of Edgar Allan Poe with a Memoir,
Critical Introductions, and Notes_, 10 vols.
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