The American quest for a supreme fiction
Subtitle: Whitman's legacy in the personal epic
By: James E. Miller, Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Influence; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Epic poetry, American -- History and criticism
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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