Among certain painters and poets, as among certain critics and collectors, his work had for years commanded an almost. It is one of the functions of a retrospective exhibition, of course, to enlarge our understanding of an artist. Listed below are the top 100 titles for the american literature classroom, ranked in order of popularity, chosen by american literature teachers from across the. He was the fourth of five children of james porter, an architect, and ruth furness porter, a poet from a literary family. Other important practitioners of the form include katherine anne porter, eudora welty, john cheever.
In studies in classic american literature, the english novelist d. He has written two novelshard and sweet like sugar and his essays and short fiction have appeared in such anthologies as mamas boy, i. An informative authorized biography and a critique of porters work, this lavishly illustrated monograph makes a case for porter as a major american artist. Lawrence wrote that whitman was the first to smash the old. Top 100 american literature titles perfection learning. In 1979 he was awarded a phd by harvard university, presenting a thesis on the seventeenth century painter mattia preti, to whom he has subsequently devoted numerous publications, including the catalogue raisonne of the paintings 1999.
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