American Literature

All modern American literature

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway

I didn\\’t ever consider

I didn’t ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I’ve always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on … Read more

I get up at

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings

As an undergraduate I

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. David Eagleman

I’ve been as bad

I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. Dashiell Hammett

American literature has never

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. Christopher Dawson

There is something very

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. Christopher Bollen

American literature has been,

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the … Read more

I finally returned to

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. Azar Nafisi

It is one of

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave. Anatole Broyard