The American Tradition in Literature, Third Edition

New York: Grossett & Dunlap - A W.W. Norton Book, 1967. 6th Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 8. 1921 pages indexed with bibliography. Some cover edge and spine wear. No marks stamps or underlining. Shorter Edition in One Volume contains more than half of what was originally published in Two volumes totaling almost 3600 pages. Cover has painting of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins. Preface is title The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution. Contents: The Puritan Culture, Diarists and Observers, Reason and Revolution, Romantic Rediscovery Nature Man Society, Symbolic and Ethical Idealism, The Humantarian and Critical Temper, Pioneers of a New Poetry, The Regional Realists, Masters of Critical Realism, and Literary Expression of Social Thought. Contents under the general heading Twentieth Century: American Revaluations, Attack on Convention, Poets in Waste Land, Fiction in Search of Reality, Poetry of Idea and Order, Fiction as Social History, Poets at Mid-Century, Recent Fiction, and Recent Poetry. Selections from Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Jefferson, Herman Melville and much, much more. Includes introductions and biographies in accorance with the best of modern scholarship. .