Cosmic optimism
Subtitle: a study of the interpretation of evolution by American poets from Emerson to Robinson.
Publisher: Octagon Books
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Evolution (Biology) in literature.; Evolution in literature.; Cosmology in literature.; Optimism in literature.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 433-442.
Reprint of the ed. published by University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1949.