Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards by Frank R., Jr. Shivers (Paperback Book)

Johns Hopkins University Press

In this first comprehensive literary history of Baltimore and Maryland (with notes on Washington writers), Frank R. Shivers, Jr., explores the region's long-overlooked but substantial contribution to American letters. In picture and story, Shivers's lively account ranges from the colonial satire of Ebenezer Cook, to the National Anthem of Francis Scott Key, to the acclaimed works of Poe, Mencken, and Fitzgerald. Here are surprising stories of Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Dashiel Hammett, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, and other writers influenced by Chesapeake culture-an influence still fresh in the work of such contemporary writers as John Barth, Anne Tyler, and Russell Baker. \""Nothing,\"" wrote Gertrude Stein, \""really can stop anyone living and feeling as they do in Baltimore.\"" As\n\nMaryland Wits and Baltimore Bards\nA Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mai;