American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F. O. Matthiessen

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Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.

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Original title: American renaissance : art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman
Original publication date: 1941
People/Characters: Walt Whitman; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Henry James; Herman Melville (show all 7); Henry David Thoreau
Important places: USA
Epigraph*: Nella storia d'ogni nazione c'è un momento in cui i poteri percettivi, uscendo di questa animale giovinezza, giungono a maturità, e non sono ancora divenuti microscopia: sì che l'uomo, in quell'istante, s'estende sulla int... (show all)era scala; e, con i piedi ancora piantati nelle immense forze della notte, volge gli occhi e la mente alla creazione solare e stellare, e conversa con essa. È questo il momento del vigore adulto, il culmine della potenza.

EMERSON, Uomini rappresentativi
Di andar via di quaggiù, come di venirvi. Maturità. Maturare è tutto.

Sottolineato da Melville in Re Lear
Dedication*: Ad Hanns Caspar Kollar e Harry Dorman

che tanto m'insegnarono
sulle possibilità di vita in America
Original language: Inglese

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Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 810.9003 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
LCC: PS201 .M3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 19th century
BISAC: LIT LITERARY CRITICISM American General
LCO LITERARY COLLECTIONS General

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