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By the time Eliot delivered his address, there were two nineteenth- century American writers whose reputations
In him the hitherto incompatible extremes of the American temperament were 15 fused.”
The possibility of showing the entire American population its own face in the Mirror Screen has at last
In the manuscript, the threat to the city is not mentioned, but rather “all the men were like brothers
He characterizes American landscapes from Canada down to Cuba, rivers and forests, cities and rural areas
We Americans apply too fast.
At the 1992 Whitman Centennial Conference in Iowa City, four senior Whitman scholars were honored as
The lecture was entitled "American Literature and the American Language."
By the time Eliot delivered his address, there were two nineteenth-century American writers whose reputations
Bergland argues, "In American letters, and in the American imagination, Native American ghosts function
And Howard Gillman's insights on American political history and pragmatic philosophy were instrumental
American democratic values and ideals.
were able to translate their ideals into successful public policy.
signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
If so, the seeds of doubt were probably latent in Whitman's poetics from the start.