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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
America's special status as the 1st modern country intentionally created by citizens rather than by rulers fired writers and composers from the disenfranchised classes with a sense of entitlement to have their voices heard. They felt an obligation to persuade others that the society's unifying institutions should be changed to improve the quality of common life. The large percentage of American writers concerned with social change shaped the course...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
American nature poetry is presently adjusting to recent critical movements and attempting to address prevailing fundamental notions concerning humans and their relationships with nature. The authors whose poetry is examined here, whether they approach a large and often frightening American nature as pilgrims or postmodern philosophers, exemplify both this dividedness and the ability to discover the means for healing reconciliation through reconnection...
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