“Edgar Allan Poe and Ezra Pound make two convenient pillars with which to mark off a span during which the art of poetry in the United States got very little serious attention. Both these men were attempting to rescue it from the sloppiness and verbosity of magazine romanticism, to insist on concentration - in Poe's case, on brevity - on intensity of calculated effect.”
Edmund’s sweeping review of the contemporary literature emanating from the civil war.
Author: Edmund Wilson
Title: Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1962
Physical Description: Hardcover; Duodecimo; 816p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, chipping and rubbing to surfaces—in new protector. Boards and spine clean with mild edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages toned. Owner’s name on front end-paper.
Comments: Very nice copy
