1. Kenneth Rexroth, Assays (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1961); see esp. ‘The Influence of French Poetry on American’, p. 153.
2. Donald Davie, ‘The Legacy of Fenimore Cooper’, Essays in Criticism, vol. 9, no. 3 (1959) p. 223.
3. Edward Dahlberg, Alms for Oblivion ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964 ) p. 73.
4. D.H. Lawrence, ‘American Heroes’, Nation no. 112 (14 April 1926) pp. 413–14.
5. Alan Holder, ‘In the American Grain: William Carlos Williams on the American Past’, American Quarterly vol. xix, no. 3 (Fall 1967) pp. 499–515, esp. p. 509.