On Wings of Song belongs to an important literary tradition: the bildungsroman. Notable members of the tradition are Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte and David Copperfield (1849) by Charles Dickens. A bildungsroman depicts the education of someone from childhood to adulthood and is usually autobiographical in many of its major elements. Of the great bildungsromans in English, The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler most closely resembles On Wings of Song. The two books resemble one another in.....
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