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...continent was one of "surprise, shock, triviality, and grandeur," and it required a new language. The American classicists, said Wilder, found this new language by inventing an American "grand style...
...them all, Melville best exemplified this style in his consistent use of concrete language and novel phraseology. Wilder described Melville's symbolism as still disputed by scholars but strong because of its specific imagery. "The fireside talks" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wilder said, are a modern example of the "grand style...
...American classics, Wilder claimed, speak to a cosmic "man," unlike much Continental literature of the 18th and 19th centuries which addressed particular nationalities. It is a literature which discarded the conventions of "time secession," recognizing that experience is not regulated by a chronological order of events, and thus opening a new sphere of psychological narration...
...literature, Wilder believes, whose core is the independent and imaginative spirit of pilgrims and immigrants, of free men "committed to an idea, not an environment...
...Wilder will give the second lecture of the series, entitled "Thoreau, or the Bean-Row in the Wilderness," Wednesday. "Emily Dickinson, or the Articulate Inarticulate" will follow on November 29, and the final lecture, "Walt Whitman and the American Lonliness," will be given December...