On Whitman
by Williams, C. K., (Charles Kenneth)
Examines what makes "Leaves of Grass"--Particularly the original edition--so distinctive and influential, including the use of the first person and the poet's views on sex, death, and other topics, and details its effect on other poets.
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- Full title :On Whitman / C.K. Williams.
Summary
Examines what makes "Leaves of Grass"--Particularly the original edition--so distinctive and influential, including the use of the first person and the poet's views on sex, death, and other topics, and details its effect on other poets.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 187 pages ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780691144726, 0691144729
- oclc:ocn452290730
- LC Classification:PS3238
- Dewey Decimal:811/.3
Table of Contents
The music -- The past -- Beginnings -- Vision -- Depths -- The man before the poems -- Self-made -- The notebooks -- Emerson and the greatest poet -- The greatest poet submits a poem for publication -- "I" -- A dare -- "You" -- America -- The modern, one : Baudelaire -- Hugo and Longfellow -- The modern, two : Eliot and Pound -- Others -- The body -- Sex -- Woman -- Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The faggots" -- Nature -- Prophets -- Imagination -- Mortality -- Mortality again -- The sad captain -- Lines -- The voice -- Life after -- What he teaches us.
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