From Henry David Thoreau's extensive list of leaf colours to Wallace Stevens's 'gusty emotions', Lucy Cheseldine explores how Autumn shaped New England's literary and cultural heritage. Cheseldine investigates what this relationship meant for the early formation of an American identity and suggests ways in which it continues to influence more contemporary regional writing.
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Paul Harding, Enon (London: William Heinemann, 2015).
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The Poems of Edward Taylor, ed. Donald E. Stanford (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
The Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969).
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860, The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition, ed. Jason Stacy (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009).