Title: An American procession
First published: 1984
Description: In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - and with the revelation after World War I of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time: Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.
Subjects: History and criticism, American literature, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), Littérature américaine, Literatur, Histoire et critique, CHR 1984, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, American literature, history and criticism, Language acquisition