The Flowering of New England Author:Van Wyck Brooks "The Flowering of New England" is the first unified modern appraisal of the giants of our native culture. An inclusive, authoritative, inspiring book, it is at one and the same time a lucid narrative of ideas, a brilliant account of the lives of some fifty authors and painters, a poetic evocation of 19th-century Boston, and an almost reverentia... more »l tribute to the genius of Hawthorne, Emerson and Thoreau.« less