American Children

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“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Natives of poverty, children of malheur,
The gaiety of language is our seigneur.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)