“The most ecstatic piece of writing ever composed about an American summer.”
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10 min readFeb 26, 2019
Time Magazine called James Agee’s prose-poem , Knoxville, Summer 1915, “the most ecstatic piece of writing ever composed about an American summer.” It is a remarkable piece, written by Agee when he was only 28 in the year 1938. It is printed here in its entirety for educational purposes.
