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Stephen Spender on Loneliness and American Literature

Intense loneliness gives all great American literature something in common, the sense of a lonely animal moving through the dark, like the wolves in a story of Jack London, the White Whale chased across a waste of seas in Melville, the sensitive and exploitable young American seeking his own soul through ruined European places, of James.

— Stephen Spender in “The Situation of the American Writer”

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