God & the American Writer
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 11/01/1998
Description:
From our reigning authority on American literature comes a culminating work, a magnificently informed and beautifully written survey of the ways in which our greatest writers grappled with the problem of God.
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With a range that encompasses Nathaniel Hawthorne and Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson and William Faulkner, Alfred Kazin shows how America's absence of established religion encouraged its literary geniuses to worship, define -- and sometimes deny -- God on their own terms. Here are Herman Melville, pouring a thousand Biblical references into Moby-Dick; Walt Whitman, our blissful erotic pantheist; and T. S. Eliot, who was less devoted to God than he was to the authority of the Church. Overflowing with passion and insight, God and the American Writer is Kazin at the peak of his scholarship and style.
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