American Heralds of the Spirit: Emerson, Whitman, Melville

by John Fentress Gardner

We know who the Founding Fathers were economically and politically, but who founded America culturally and spiritually? For John Gardner, it was not until the generation after Jefferson and Adams that the revolutionary principles of American spiritual life were laid down. For him, Emerson, Melville, and Whitman speak for the spirit as it lives in America.This is not so much a work of literary criticism as a meditative attempt to allow the ideas of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940262444
• ISBN13: 9780940262447
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.