 | Krista Comer - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...West as a cultural landscape upon which the nation writes its most American dreams. He calls the West "the youngest and freshest of America's regions, magnificently...become something unprecedented and unmatched in the world."56 Western wilderness is "the geography of hope";57 the western writer is innocent, optimistic;58... | |
 | William R. Handley, Nathaniel Lewis - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 398 pages
..."hope's native home, the youngest and freshest of America's regions, [seemedl magnificently endowed with the chance to become something unprecedented and unmatched in the world." Unfortunately, however, in the urge to plant and settle, we followed "arrogant pipedreams," acting... | |
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West one of its most celebrated passages when he described the region as "hope's native home, the youngest and freshest of America's regions, magnificently endowed and with the chance to become something unprecedented and unmatched in the world. 