On WhitmanEdwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd Duke University Press, 1987 - Всего страниц: 295 The Journal of American Literature has regularly published the best work from historians, critics, and bibliographers of American literature since 1929. This volume contains 16 articles from the Journal, displaying the development of insight and the shifts of critical emphasis with respect to Walt Whitman. Beginning with an article on the main drifts in Whitman's thought and feeling as revealed in Leaves of Grass, the volume covers Walt Whitman on Timber Creek, New Jersey, his conception of the spiritual democracy, the Quaker influence on Whitman, and his use of the Middle Ages. Other topics include: the metrical principle in his poetry; his triadic imagery; this use of the catalog as an aesthetic device and as an expression of transcendalist thought; the place of "Chants Democratic and Native American" as poetic cycle of Leaves of Grass; his standing with important monthlies; and his interest in Egyptian lore and myth. ISBN 0-8223-0759-6: $33.50. |
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Main Drifts in Whitmans Poetry 1932 | 1 |
Walt Whitman on Timber Creek 1933 | 21 |
Whitmans Conception of the Spiritual | 33 |
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