The seminar is an investigation of music in American literature. Walt Whitman was immersed in opera; Emily Dickinson was steeped in the hymnbook; Zora Neale Hurston in folksong; Amiri Baraka in the blues and bebop;John ...
"Northwards" is an adventure story, and a story about a journey. It tells the story of Gray, a young man traveling from Florida to New York in an effort to figure out the complicated relationship with his dying father, ...
Previous critics of A.R. Ammons' work have located the poet in a “direct” line of descent from “the great originals of the American Romantic tradition, Emerson and Whitman.” I argue that, while I broadly agree with this ...