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[First edition]. |
| Description |
x, 364 pages ; 23 cm |
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The mask of John Donne.--The colloquial Byron.--The romantic imagination and the unromantic Byron.--Death and the James family.--Henry James's English hours.--Two American painters: Copley and Allston.--Mrs. Wharton's mask.--Scott Fitzgerald: The apprentice fiction.--Problems of American literary biography: Longfellow, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain.--Problems of American cultural history: O strange new world, Patriotic gore.--The heroic and the romantic West.--Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail, a minor classic of the West.--James Fenimore Cooper, America's mirror of conscience.--The Land of Oz, America's great good place.--Wallace Stevens and Emerson.--The poetry of Isaac Rosenberg.--Eliot, Pound, and history.--Hart Crane's last poem.--A new kind of poetry? |
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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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