Green, Martin. The Problem of Boston: Some Readings in Cultural History.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1966. In it, Green declares, “Boston’s attitude to literature was in many ways a forerunner of the modern attitude. Its writers fought harder and earlier against the herd and for standards than any other sizable community. It tried to create a literature that would be a cultural force, aesthetically satisfying because it was also morally and socially satisfying . . . Its literature should surely bear some mark of that virtue, and in some way satisfy, rather than so radically dissatisfy, that taste. That is the puzzle. That is the problem of Boston.”