The American Tradition in Literature Revised.

Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long, eds.

The American Tradition in Literature Revised.

New York:

W. W. Norton,

1961

By the late 1950s, Billy Budd had become a standard assignment for college literature courses in the United States. This widely used textbook was the first anthology to include the Harvard University Press corrected Freeman text, presented in the foreword by the editors as a ìtestament of reconciliation.î
My heavily underlined copy is an example of one 19-year-old joining Herman Melville in his unfinished search for meaning in a world of innocence and authority.

From the Collection of William Palmer Johnston.