
About this book
In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - and with the revelation after World War I of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time: Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.
Subjects
History and criticismAmerican literaturePRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)Littérature américaineLiteraturHistoire et critiqueCHR 1984Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und AuswandererAmerican literature, history and criticismLanguage acquisition