TITLE:
An American procession / Alfred Kazin.
Publication Date:
1984
Publication Information:
New York : Knopf,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xvii, 408 p.
Subject Term:
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780394503783
General Note:
Includes index.
