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Stevens' Europe

delicate clinkings and total grandeur

Robert Rehder

pp. 41-57

Abstract

Americans have always thought that all of English literature belongs to them. English is their language and its literature naturally part of their heritage and identity, and all of European culture, too, for that matter, because in the beginning they were almost all Europeans. They all have a share of Whitman's inclusiveness and eclecticism. The British, in their very successful insularity, even now do not accept American literature as part of their tradition.

Publication details

Published in:

Eeckhout Bart, Ragg Edward (2008) Wallace Stevens across the atlantic. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 41-57

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583849_4

Full citation:

Rehder Robert (2008) „Stevens' Europe: delicate clinkings and total grandeur“, In: B. Eeckhout & E. Ragg (eds.), Wallace Stevens across the atlantic, Dordrecht, Springer, 41–57.