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Contents Introduction 1 Part I: Northerners Emerson at Age Two Hundred 11 Hawthorne’s Smile 20 Longfellow Lives Again 29 The Mystery of Emily Dickinson 35 The Convert (Emma Lazarus) 54 Dark Darker Darkest (Robert Frost) 67 Flawed Perfection (Edna St. Vincent Millay) 80 Deserters (John Dos Passos) 93 Covering Her Century (Martha Gellhorn) 105 The Critter Poet (Gary Snyder) 116 Lowell’s Curse 126 Part II: Southerners The Ding-Dong of Doom (William Faulkner) 135 The War between the Tates (Allen Tate) 147 The Family Man (James Agee) 162 Love in the Ruins (Walker Percy) 173 A Sense of Place (Eudora Welty) 181 Poet in the Sun Belt (Randall Jarrell) 196 Part III: The Union Reconsidered American Jeremiad 211 Patriotic Gore 224 Friends by Chance 235 acknowledgments 247 ...

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