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Written in a fine and lucid prose style, T. S. Eliot and American Poetry presents a critical study of Eliot's major poems as it examines what America means to its poets. Eliot's contribution to a poetic dialogue on this subject with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery, and other literary figures plays a significant role in this groundbreaking study.

Investigating Eliot's literary inheritance through his familial traditions, …

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Literature Social Sciences Print Books Nonfiction Literary Criticism Regional Studies Poetry - Literary Criticism American Literature English Literature National Characteristics American Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism 20th Century American Literature - Pre WWII - Literary Criticism English Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism American Poetry - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous American Literature - Literary Criticism National Characteristics - North America Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965)->Criticism and interpretation American poetry->History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature