Walt Whitman / edited, with an introduction, by Harold Bloom.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bloom, Harold.

Series:

• Modern critical views
• Modern critical views.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

177 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House, 1985.

Summary:

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

Contents:

• Introduction / Harold Bloom
• Whitman / D.H. Lawrence
• Policy made personal / Kenneth Burke
• The theory of America / Richard Chase
• Whitman justified, the poet in 1860 / Roy Harvey Pearce
• The delicacy of Whitman / James Wright
• Always going out and coming in / R.W.B. Lewis
• Whitman's image of voice / Harold Bloom
• The wound-dresser / Paul Zweig.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: pages 163-165.

ISBN:

0877546037

OCLC:

11315861