The raven and the whale ; the war of words and wits in the era of Poe and Melville.

Author: Miller, Perry, 1905-1963.

Imprint:New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1956]

Descriptionviii, 370 p. : ports. (on lining papers) ; 25 cm.

Note:PROLOGUE: A New Yorker comes home -- BOOK ONE: THE KNICKERBOCKER SET -- q. Lewis Gaylord Clark's table -- 2. Knickerbocker whiggery -- 3. John Waters -- 4. Harry Franco -- 5. Chowder -- BOOK TWO: YOUNG AMERICA -- 1. The Tetractys Club -- 2. A protective tariff for native genius -- 3. A pattern of alliances -- BOOK THREE: MAELSTROM IN THE MICROCOSM -- 1. The literary prospecs of 1845 -- 2. Big Abel and the Little Manhattan -- 3. The timeliness of Toby -- 4. Tom Pepper -- 5. Literary worlds -- 6. Rear-guard action -- BOOK FOUR: A GREATER THAN SHAKESPEARE? -- 1. Hautia -- 2. Recoil -- 3. An American idyl -- 4. A Berkshire idyl -- 5. The genius of Charles Dickens -- 6. A savage at heart -- EPILOGUE: GHOSTS.

Bibliography Note:Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgments" (p. 355-356)

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