cover image The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections

The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections

Richard Poirier. Yale University Press, $13 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04086-9

A professor of English at Rutgers, the author follows what he calls an Emersonian tradition""literature as a testing ground for the energizing spirit of human will,'' as PW put itthrough such writers as Thoreau, Whitman, William James, Frost and Norman Mailer. (February)