American Literature
power,' will have also the courage to apply it, and will reject the ideal grasshopper wherever he finds it, in science, in literature, in art, because it is
not 'simple, natural, and honest,' because it is not like a real grasshopper. But I will own that I think the time is yet far off, and that the people who
have been brought up on the ideal grasshopper, the heroic grasshopper, the impassioned grasshopper, the selfdevoted, adventureful, good old
romantic cardboard grasshopper, must die out before the simple, honest, and natural grasshopper can have a fair field." Howells believed the future
of American writing was not in poetry but in novels, a form which he saw shifting from "romance" to a serious form.
Mark Twain and his critique of American civilisation through the eyes of children.
Mark Twain shared a common understanding of U.S. identity and world mission
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