The Literature of the United States

Allen Tate Ameri American literature American poet American writers authors became Boston Brahmins called century CHAPTER characters Chicago Civil colonial contemporary Cooper Crane critics culture deal death drama Dreiser E. E. Cummings early Edith Wharton Eliot Emerson Emily Dickinson England English essays Europe European Ezra Pound father Faulkner fiction Fitzgerald Gertrude Stein Harvard Hawthorne Hemingway Henry James hero Howells human humour idea Indian Irving John later less letters literary lived London Longfellow Lowell Mark Twain Melville Melville's modern native Natty nature Negro never novel novelist O'Neill Passos perhaps plays Poe's poems poetry Pound prose published Puritan reader realism Sandburg scene seems sense Sherwood Anderson short stories Sinclair Lewis social society South Southern speak style T. S. Eliot theatre theme things Thoreau thought tion United verse Wallace Stevens Whitman wilderness William words writing wrote York young