Author(s): Van Wyck Brooks

Literary - Studies, Criticism, Theory | Literature - Anthologies, Collections, Essays, Reference

Published in 1949.  History of literary life in the America of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman and their contemporaries. Essays include Washington Irving's New York, Walt Whitman's Youth, Melville the Traveller, San Francisco and Bret Harte, Mark Twain in the West, The South: Lanier and Joel Chandler Harris, Miss Murfree and Cable.

Good condition. Pages, spine, cover - sound and binding firm. Some tanning on first and last pages, and on outside page edges. Inscription on inside front page. Cover on spine faded.
Published in 1949.