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Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great
conversations"--dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen
wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In
nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De
Crevecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright
new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis
reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming
ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology
as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as
fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic
theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville,
Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their
continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William
Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.
An insightful biography of Florence's famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex
development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme
poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the
mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the
grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental
search for ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy. It is in this
masterpiece of self-discovery and redemption that Lewis finds
Dante's own autobiography?and the sum of all his shifting passions
and epiphanies.
A New York Times Notable Book
In this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis
provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan
city which has been a prime source for modern Western culture and
which has also been his second home for fifty years. With a
scholar's eye and a lover's passion, he invites us to share his
vision of a city and the way of life it has engendered and
inspired.
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