This phrase was first used as the title of an 1868 essay by John De Forest, who cited "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as the best candidate for it.
This phrase was first used as the title of an 1868 essay by John De Forest, who cited "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as the best candidate for it. Homer Zigler is the hero of a 1938 novel with this title in which its author, Clyde Brion Davis, tells of a newspaperman's failure to write one. The best-known literary work of this name is probably the novel by Philip Roth describing the fictitious Rupert Mundy's baseball team. FTP, what is this 4-word phrase which indicated the belief that it was possible to write a national epic equal to the best works of other nations?
This phrase was first used as the title of an 1868 essay by John De Forest, who cited "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as the best candidate for it.
The Great American Novel