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- Title: Wolfe at the White House.
- Author : Thomas Wolfe Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 154 KB
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America may be all the terrible things these English and French people have told me it is; it is also a great many other terrible things they know nothing of, but that I do know from the bottom up--but the fact remains it is the only place in this universe to which I feel even partially a kinship--its sights and sounds and smells are part of my blood and brain, and I am very far from being a provincial.--Thomas Wolfe (1) Thomas Wolfe is the Walt Whitman of the novel. Shortly after the publication of Look Homeward, Angel, as early as 1930, sketches and entries in his notebooks reveal that the novelist was fascinated with the idea of coming to grips with the spirit and variety of American life, much of which was realized in his succeeding three novels. But it was a fortuitous twist of literary fate that "A Prologue to America," a poetic evocation expressing with intense lyricism all that he loved about America, appeared as the important lead article for the first Americana issue of Vogue, February 1, 1938. It was the last thing of his published during his lifetime. Maxwell Perkins, who knew him as well as anyone, said: "It was with America he was most deeply concerned and I believe he opened it up as no other writer ever did for the people of his time and for the writers and artists and poets of tomorrow." (2)
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