On Whitman
by Williams, C. K., (Charles Kenneth)
In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that have accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction--or reintroduction--to Whitman…
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- Full title :On Whitman / C.K. Williams.
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In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that have accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction--or reintroduction--to Whitman. In brief, thematic chapters with many quotations from Leaves of Grass, Williams explores.
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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:1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400834334, 1400834333
- oclc:ocn650307478
- 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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