What is the source of the title The Catcher in the Rye (1951)?

July 17, 2020September 15, 2011 by Pamela Landy

The source of the title The Catcher in the Rye is a reference to Robert Burns’s poem “Comin’ Through the Rye” (1792), which Holden Caulfield quotes.

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