Purpose and place; essays on American writers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 201 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Macmillan; New York : St Martin's Press, 1965.

Contents:

After Adam.

Edward Taylor: poet in a wilderness.

James Fenimore Cooper: American dreamer.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1: the light and the dark.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2: wizards both.

Herman Melville: information into wisdom.

Edgar Allan Poe: the croak of the raven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: fellow of anonymous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: the writing on the wall.

Henry D. Thoreau: ripples on Walden Pond.

Walt Whitman, 1: the bird of freedom.

Walt Whitman, 2: poet of "the modern."

Walt Whitman, 3: Walt Whitman and his English admirers.

Emily Dickinson: the woman in white.

The American lyric.

Mark Twain: how the expert works.

W. D. Howells: boy of the golden West.

Henry James: the American abroad.

Stephen Crane: kinds of courage and realism.

Willa Cather: the frontier dream.

Robert Frost: English, by adoption.

Sinclair Lewis: an American life.

Ernest Hemingway, 1: the bruiser and the poet.

Ernest Hemingway, 2: men without women.

William Faulkner: the last of William Faulkner.

Postscripts: The great tradition. The give-and-take of English.

Notes:

"Most of these essays have appeared as review articles in The Times literary supplement, across the past four years."

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

211839