A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost

by David Bromwich

For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. During this time, in David Bromwich's words, "A motive for great writing...has been a tension, which is felt to be unresolvable, between the claims of social obligation and of personal autonomy. That these had to be experienced as rival claims was the discovery of Burke and Wordsworth. Our lives today and our choices are made in a culture where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674127757
• ISBN13: 9780674127753
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"