Walt Whitman (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hindus, Milton

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Walt Whitman (1819-92). American poet whose free vigorous verse proved a liberating force to many of his literary successors. Writings include: Leaves of Grass, Memoranda During the War, Drum Tops. Volume covers the period 1822-1914.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136213366
• Artikelnr.: 39993349

Autorenporträt

Milton Hindus

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Emerson's letter to Whitman
2: The first notice
3: Charles Eliot Norton's review
4: Moncure Conway visits Whitman
5: Norton and Lowell disagree
6: Rufus W. Griswold on Whitman
7: Whitman's anonymous self-reviews
8: Edward Everett Hale on Whitman
9: Extracts from an unsigned notice
10: An English reaction
11: An American echo
12: 'Impious and obscene'
13: Bronson Alcott on Whitman
14: Thoreau on Whitman
15: 'It is a lie to... review... one's own book'
16: A favourable English reaction
17: 'His style is everywhere graphic'
18: 'Full of beauties and blemishes'
19: Lincoln and Leaves of Grass 1857 (?)
20: 'A wild Tupper of the West'
21: Praise and blame
22: 'It is the healthiest book, morally'
23: Three views of 1860
24: 'The primordial music of nature'
25: More puzzling than Swedenborg
26: 'the Leaves ... resemble the Hebrew Scriptures'
27: 'A curious warble '?
28: Henry James on Whitman
29: William Douglas O'Connor on Whitman
30: Rossetti's London edition
31: Review of the London edition
32: Swinburne on Whitman
33: Anne Gilchrist on Whitman
34: Edward Dowden on Whitman
35: 'Whitman's style ... is his greatest contribution'
36: A belated appreciation
37: Saintsbury on Whitman
38: Peter Bayne on Whitman
39: Lanier on Whitman
40: Some views of the 1880s
41: 'Caviare to the multitude'
42: 'Taken in hand by a reputable publisher
43: A writer of almost insane violence
44: Gerard Manley Hopkins on Whitman
45: Swinburne on Whitmania
46: Knut Hamsun on Whitman
47: Harriet Monroe on Whitman
48: John Addington Symonds on Whitman
49: T. W. Rolleston on Whitman
50: William James on Whitman
51: Max Nordau on Whitman
52: William Dean Howells on Whitman
53: John Burroughs on Whitman
54: William Sloane Kennedy on Whitman
55: Henry James on Whitman
56: John Jay Chapman on Whitman
57: Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Whitman
58: Santayana on Whitman
59: Basil de Selincourt on Whitman