Item #25524 A Writer's America: Landscape in Literature. Literary History, Alfred Kazin.

A Writer's America: Landscape in Literature.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with a hint of fading to the spine. The noted literary critic and historian Alfred Kazin takes the reader on a glorious exploration of the influence of the American landscape on American writers and their writing. He begins in the Eighteenth Century with Thomas Jefferson, travels through the Nineteenth Century with the likes of Lewis & Clark and Francis Parkman and on into the Twentieth Century with Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson, and Stephen Crane to name but a few. Richly illustrated. Item #25524
ISBN: 0394571428

Price: $45.00

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