On Whitman

Title Statements

Full title :On Whitman / C.K. Williams

Edition Statements

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 s. ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780691144726, 0691144729
oclc:ocn760163472
LC Classification:PS3238
Dewey Decimal:811 .3

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