| Description |
xv, 462 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction to Poe / Richard Wilbur -- Unconquered eye and the enchanted circle / Tony Tanner -- Thoreau / F. O. Matthiessen -- Hawthorne's fiction: the light and the dark / Richard H. Fogle -- Moby-Dick: work of art / Walter E. Bezanson -- Walt Whitman: he had his nerve / Randall Jarrell -- Seeing New Englandly: from Edwards to Emerson to Dickinson / Albert J. Gelpi -- Henry James and the morality of fiction / Robert J. Reilly -- Southwestern vernacular / James M. Cox -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste / Lionel Trilling -- Outstripping the event / Larzer Ziff -- Theodore Dreiser: his education and ours / Alfred Kazin -- T. S. Eliot's magic, lantern / Leonard Unger -- Robert Frost's theory of poetry / Lawrance Thompson -- Function of nostalgia / Wright Morris -- Hero and the code / Philip Young -- Introduction to ... Faulkner / Malcolm Cowley -- Greatest living author / Karl Shapiro -- Richard Wright's blues / Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Ellison and the American comic tradition / Earl H. Rovit -- Saul Bellow / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Black boy looks at the White boy / James Baldwin -- Black boys and native sons / Irving Howe. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Leary, Lewis Gaston, 1906-1990.
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| ISBN |
0030783607 |
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