An American ProcessionIn this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the revelation of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time--Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Old Man in a Dry Month | 3 |
AMERICA WHEN YOUNG 18301865 | 23 |
Emerson | 25 |
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