1997, Marion Montgomery,Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty, page74:
The poem is heavily concerned with amiddleness, and with an attempt to understand thismiddleness in relation to beginnings.
2001, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray,The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, page186:
Even during the era of Middle Western ascendancy early in the century, the qualities that distinguished the Middle West were associated withmiddleness.
