Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 43. Weight in Grams: 974. . 1968. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1968
Language: English
ISBN 10: 019500759X
ISBN 13: 9780195007596
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.

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F. O. Matthiessen was a Californian by birth but grew up in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. Educated both here and abroad, he started teaching in 1927, first at Yale and then at Harvard, where he was Professor of History and Literature. He made the field of American poetry one of his major interests and wrote critical estimates of Emerson, Poe, Eliot, and other contemporary poets. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Senior Fellow of the Kenyon School of English.

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