Some Americans (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Tomlinson
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Memoir/essays
- Time of Work: 1945-1979
- Setting: The United States and Italy
- Principal Characters: Charles Tomlinson, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Ezra Pound, Georgia O’Keeffe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Painting or painters, Italy or Italians, Biography
Form and Content
In a one-paragraph introduction to this brief volume, British poet Charles Tomlinson attributes its origin to the American literary critic Hugh Kenner, “who suggested the making of this book” out of essays that Tomlinson wrote between 1976 and 1979. Most of the essays the poet had already published in Contemporary Literature, Paideuma, and The Hudson Review. Gathered loosely around the theme of American influence on his work, the essays make a “Quantum Book” in the series of that name—the physicists’ term for a unit of...
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