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Published by Knopf, 1988
ISBN 10: 0394571428ISBN 13: 9780394571423
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with a hint of fading to the spine. The noted literary critic and historian Alfred Kazin takes the reader on a glorious exploration of the influence of the American landscape on American writers and their writing. He begins in the Eighteenth Century with Thomas Jefferson, travels through the Nineteenth Century with the likes of Lewis & Clark and Francis Parkman and on into the Twentieth Century with Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson, and Stephen Crane to name but a few. Richly illustrated.
Published by Knopf, 1984
ISBN 10: 0394503783ISBN 13: 9780394503783
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830 1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and with the revelation of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.