The American quest for a supreme fiction
Whitman's legacy in the personal epic
by James Edwin Miller
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"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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American Epic poetry, American poetry, Epic poetry, American, History and criticism, Influence, Poetry, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Poetry, Self in literature, Poésie épique, Epos, Histoire et critique, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Poésie américaine, Literatura norte-americana (crítica e interpretação), Whitman, walt, 1819-1892, Epic poetry, history and criticism, American poetry, history and criticismPeople
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The American quest for a supreme fiction: Whitman's legacy in the personal epic
1979, University of Chicago Press
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The American quest for a supreme fiction: Whitman's legacy in the personal epic
1979, University of Chicago Press
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