Walt Whitman in England / by Harold Blodgett ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blodgett, Harold William, 1900-1994, author.

Contributor:

Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952, publisher.

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969, former owner.

Blodgett, Harold William, 1900-1994, autographer.

Cornell University Press, publisher.

Oxford University Press, publisher.

George Banta Publishing Company, printer.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cornell studies in English ; 24.

Cornell studies in English ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.

Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt).

Penn Provenance:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)

Blodgett, Harold William, 1900-1994 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 244 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Manufacture:

Menasha, Wisconsin : George Banta Publishing Company.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press ; London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934.

Contents:

Introduction

William Michael Rossetti

Edward Dowden

John Addington Symonds

Robert Buchanan

Anne Gilchrist

Swinburne

Tennyson

Other poets

The major prophets

The professors and the journalists

Carpenter, Ellis, and the "Bolton College"

Conclusion.

Notes:

A description of Whitman's relations with those Englishmen who responded actively to Leaves of Grass. See preface.

"Printed in the United States of America George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin"--Verso of title leaf.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy has laid in paper slip with manuscript note in pencil.

Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.

Whitman Collection copy has laid in front of envelope addressed to Mrs. Frank J. Sprague in New York City from Harold Blodgett of Hanover, N.H., in his hand.

Other Format:

Online version: Blodgett, Harold William, 1900- Walt Whitman in England.

OCLC:

193686