Inside Narratives

George Bornstein. The Postromantic Consciousness of Ezra Pound, English Literary Studies Monograph Series, No. 8. Victoria, B.C.: The University of Victoria, 1977. 84 pp. Ellen Williams. Harriet Monroe and the Poetry Renaissance: The First Ten Years of "Poetry," 1912-22. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. 312 pp. Bernard Duffey. Poetry in America: Expression and Its Values in the Times of Bryant. Whitman, and Pound. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1978. 358 pp. In A Short Sad Book, George Bowering quips that "Canada is the country in which writing about history is history." It might be said with equal truth that the United States is the country in which writing about literature is literature. Without books like R.W. B. Lewis's The American Adam or Roy Harvey Pearce's The Continuity of American Poetry, there would be no American literature. Instead we would have American writers existing precariously and provincially on the edges of English literature. The first task of the American literary historian, then, has been to create American Literature out of the apparently uncoordinated efforts of numbers of his countrymen writing in the language of a foreign country

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