In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the revelation of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time--Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.
- ISBN10 080415127X
- ISBN13 9780804151276
- Publish Date 2 October 2013 (first published 12 April 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Knopf Publishing Group
- Format eBook
- Language English