Tang and Tone
Stephen Fender: The Federal Writer’s Project’s American epic, 18 March 2004
Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers’ Project
by Jerrold Hirsch.
North Carolina, 293 pp., £16.50, November 2003,0 8078 5489 1 Show More
by Jerrold Hirsch.
North Carolina, 293 pp., £16.50, November 2003,
“... and customs of the people the underlying strength and unity of a divided and demoralised country. Jerrold Hirsch, in his history of the FWP, traces this back to Emerson and Whitman, for whom the commonplace and the vernacular formed the source of a distinctive American aesthetic opposed to those ‘courtly muses of Europe’. Benjamin Botkin, the FWP’s ... ”
