Publication

1979 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Language

English

Word Count

90,000 words, Guess

Page Count

360 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780226526119
  • Open LibraryOL21488560M

Classifications

  • LCCPS323.5 .M45
  • LCCPS323.5.M45
  • DDC811/.03

Description

"The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction analyzes the essential characteristics and central forces in the development of this mode. James E. Miller, one of America's foremost Whitman scholars, divides his study into three parts corresponding to the growth of the American epic. He first explores its philosophical "Roots and Trunk" in the poetry and critical works of Whitman (with reference to how this philosophy appears in the work of Berryman, Lowell, and Stevens); in the second part he traces the "Branches" of Pound, Eliot, Williams, and Crane; and, in his first section, "Leaves," Miller examines the contemporary work of Olson, Berryman, and Ginsberg"--Back cover.

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Other Editions

  • The American quest for a supreme fiction: Whitman's legacy in the personal epicUniversity of Chicago Press1979-01-01

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