Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Arthur Golden and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of important older literary criticism of selected works by Walt Whitman.
Download or read book Walt Whitman as a Critic of Literature written by Maurice O. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitman left little in the way of formal criticism, but his work is permeated with references to other writers. This study brings them together.
Download or read book Walt Whitman and the World written by Gay Wilson Allen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.
Download or read book Walt Whitman as a Critic of Literature written by Maurice Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critics on Whitman written by Richard H. Rupp and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by R. H. Rupp.--A pact, by E. Pound.--Letter to Whitman: July 21, 1855, by R. W. Emerson.--Concerning Walt Whitman: December 7, 1856, by H. D. Thoreau.--Structure and poetic growth in Leaves of grass, by V. K. Chari.--Towards a theory of structure in Song of myself, by J. M. Nagle.--Only a language experiment, by F. O. Matthiessen.--Adam creates a world, by R. W. B. Lewis.--Some lines from Whitman, by R. Jarrell.--One's self I sing, by R. Chase.--Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, by S. E. Whicher.--Symbolism in When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, by C. Feidelson, Jr.--Lilacs as pastoral elegy, by R. P. Adams.--India and the soul's circumnavigation, by J. E. Miller, Jr.--Shades of darkness in The sleepers, by Sister Eva Mary.--Whitman's short lyrics, by G. W. Allen.--Sympathy on the open road, by D. H. Lawrence.--The self against the world, by R. H. Pearce.--Whitman and Dickinson, by L. L. Martz.--Twain and Whitman, by M. Green.--Conclusion, by R. Asselineau.--Bibliography (p. [126]-128).
Download or read book A Century of Whitman Criticism written by Edwin Haviland Miller and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rivulets of Prose written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Whitman written by C. K. Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around 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 to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Earth written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas’d corpses, It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor, It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last. —Walt Whitman, from “This Compost” How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman’s poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman’s language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman’s language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman’s poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experience and language that continually crop up in the discourse of political ecology and that an ecopoetic perspective can explicate Whitman’s feelings about his aging body, his war-torn nation, and the increasing stress on the American environment both inside and outside the urban world. He begins with a close reading of “This Compost”—Whitman’s greatest contribution to the literature of ecology,” from the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. He then explores personification and nature as object, as resource, and as spirit and examines manifest destiny and the globalizing impulse behind Leaves of Grass, then moves the other way, toward Whitman’s regional, even local appeal—demonstrating that he remained an island poet even as he became America’s first urban poet. After considering Whitman as an urbanizing poet, he shows how, in his final writings, Whitman tried to renew his earlier connection to nature. Walt Whitman and the Earth reveals Whitman as a powerfully creative experimental poet and a representative figure in American culture whose struggles and impulses previewed our lives today.
Download or read book What Is the Grass Walt Whitman in My Life written by Mark Doty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.
Download or read book Studies in Language Literature and Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whitman s Poetry of the Body written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works. Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's "poetry of the body" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, traditional poetics, and conservative politics. The sexual relation, with its promise of unity, love, equality, interpenetration, and productivity for partners, becomes a metaphor for all political and social relationships, including that of poet and reader. The effect of the poems is protopolitical, an altering of consciousness about the body's relation to other bodies, a shifting of the categories of knowledge that foretells political action. Killingsworth traces the interplay in Whitman's poetry between sexual and textual themes that derive from Whitman's political response to the historical turbulence of mid-century America. He describes a subtle shift in Whitman's prose writings on poetics, which turn from a view of poetry in the early 1850s as morally and politically efficacious to a chastened romanticism in the postwar years that frees the poet from responsibility for the world outside his poems. Later editions of Leaves of Grass are marked by the poet's deliberate repression of erotic themes in favor of a depoliticized aestheticism that views art not as a motivator of political and moral action but as an artifact embodying the soul of the genius.
Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Milton Hindus and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Download or read book Poetry and Repetition written by Krystyna Mazur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text.
Download or read book Essays from the Critic written by John Burroughs and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE essays and sketches of which this volume is composed are taken, as the name implies, from "The Critic." In the conviction that some, if not all of them, are, despite their brevity, of permanent literary value, it has been deemed well to reproduce them in a form more durable than that of a fortnightly review. This step is rendered doubly advisable by the fact that "The Critic" is already out of print. * * * * * CONTENTS. I. Thoreau's Wildness. John Burroughs II. "William Blake, Poet and Painter Edmund C. Stedman II. Death of Carlyle. Walt Whitman III. Death or Longfellow. Walt Whitman V. George Eliot and the Novel. Edward Eggleston VI. Frances Hodgson Burnett. R. H. Stoddard VII. Thoreau's Unpublished Poetry. F. B. Sanborn VIII. Emerson and the Superlative. John Burroughs IX. A Company of Spring Poets. Edith M. Thomas X. Nature in Literature. John Burroughs XI. Austin Dobson. E. W. Gosse XII. Alphonse Daudet. P. M. Potter XIII. The Boston Culture. J. H. Morse XIV. The Late Sidney Lanier. E. C. Stedman XV. English Society and Endymion. Julia Ward Howe XVI. Historical Criticism of Christ. H. W. Bellows XVII. Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Download or read book Bloom s How to Write about Walt Whitman written by Frank D. Casale and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on writing essays about the poetry of Walt Whitman and lists sample topics.
