This conversation has been so rich, and I find myself nearly changing my mind with every new argument. Ultimately, I think I land with their being no true American Homer. But if I had to pick, I might go with Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I’m not American, but as an outsider who has studied American Lit, I have to go with Whitman. He was (in literature) who first taught me and showed me the American spirit.
This conversation has been so rich, and I find myself nearly changing my mind with every new argument. Ultimately, I think I land with their being no true American Homer. But if I had to pick, I might go with Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Winslow Homer, maybe?
Thomas Wolfe. Maybe even Tom Wolfe.
I’m not American, but as an outsider who has studied American Lit, I have to go with Whitman. He was (in literature) who first taught me and showed me the American spirit.
Emily Dickinson