American Literature and the Academy
Subtitle: The Roots, Growth and Maturity of a Profession
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780812212914
Subjects: American - General; Reference; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: Walt Whitman wrote in 1891, the year before his death, that "to have great heroic poetry we need great readers-a heroic appetite and audience."