The design of the present ; essays on time and form in American literature /

The design of the present ; essays on time and form in American literature / [by] John F. Lynen.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lynen, John F.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 1969.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Time in literature. Literary form.

Table of Contents:

Literary form and the design of the Puritan experience
The choice of a single point of view : Edwards and Franklin
The fiction in the landscape : Irving and Cooper
The death of the present : Edgar Allan Poe
The poetry of the present and the form of the moment : Walt Whitman
Selfhood and the reality of time : T.S. Eliot.