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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's classic critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 223 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Bloom's classic critical views : Walt Whitman

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2008]

Summary:

Walt Whitman's passionate writing style and bold subject matter have deeply influenced American poetry. Nearly all of his poems were published in Leaves of Grass, which Whitman obsessively expanded, edited, and republished throughout his life, ultimately leaving behind a powerful literary legacy. This volume features a compelling selection of essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that offer students historical insights into Whitman and his works.

Contents:

Personal 3

A. Bronson Alcott (1856) 7

Moncure D. Conway "Walt Whitman" (1866) 7

William Douglas O'Connor "The Good Gray Poet: Supplement" (1866) 8

Robert Buchanan (1887) 8

Ernest Rhys "To Walt Whitman on His Seventieth Birthday" (1889) 9

Anonymous "Whitman's Obituary" (1892) 10

Edmund Clarence Stedman (1892) 16

Hamlin Garland "Walt Whitman" (1893) 16

Matthew Arnold (1866) 24

Ferdinand Freiligrath "Walt Whitman" (1868) 24

William Michael Rossetti (1869) 27

Anne Gilchrist (1869) 27

Peter Bayne "Walt Whitman's Poems" (1875) 28

Arthur Clive "Walt Whitman, the Poet of Joy" (1875) 30

George Eliot (1876) 30

William Michael Rossetti (1878) 31

John Ruskin (1879) 31

Edmund Clarence Stedman "Walt Whitman" (1880) 32

Fitzgerald Molloy "Leaders of Modern Thought" (1882) 49

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1882) 49

G.C. Macaulay "Walt Whitman" (1882) 50

Robert Louis Stevenson "Walt Whitman" (1882) 53

Sidney Lanier (1883) 59

George Selwyn "Walt Whitman at Camden" (1885) 61

Charles F. Richardson (1887) 61

Algernon Charles Swinburne "Whitmania" (1887) 62

Oliver Elton (1890) 70

Robert G. Ingersoll "Liberty in Literature" (1890) 72

William Clarke (1892) 72

Harriet Monroe "A Word about Walt Whitman" (1892) 74

Pauline W. Roose "A Child-Poet: Walt Whitman" (1892) 77

Richard Maurice Bucke "The Man Walt Whitman" (1893) 85

Barrett Wendell "American Literature" (1893) 86

William Morton Payne "Whitmaniana" (1893) 87

William Dean Howells "First Impressions of Literary New York" (1895) 87

Max Nordau (1895) 89

Willa Cather "Whitman" (1896) 90

William Sloane Kennedy "Whitman's Word-Music" (1896) 93

Henry Childs Merwin "Men and Letters" (1897) 101

Hallam Tennyson (1897) 101

John Jay Chapman "Walt Whitman" (1898) 101

Jennette Barbour Perry "Whitmania" (1898) 106

Thomas Wentworth Higginson "Whitman" (1899) 108

J.A. MacCulloch "Wak Whitman: The Poet of Brotherhood" (1899) 111

William James "A Contemporary Poet" (1899) 112

George Santayana "The Poetry of Barbarism: II. Walt Whitman" (1900) 113

William P. Trent (1903) 119

G.K. Chesterton "Conventions and the Hero" (1904) 120

Ezra Pound "What I Feel About Walt Whitman" (1909) 122

Virginia Woolf "Visits to Walt Whitman" (1918) 125

D.H. Lawrence "Poetry of the Present" (1920) 127

D.H. Lawrence "Whitman" (1921) 128

Works 139

Leaves of Grass 144

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1855) 144

Charles A. Dana (1855) 145

Walt Whitman (1855) 146

Rufus W. Griswold (1855) 148

Edward Everett Hale (1856) 150

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1856) 153

Anonymous (1856) 153

Henry David Thoreau (1856) 155

William Allingham (1857) 157

Anonymous "Innate Vulgarity" (1859) 157

Anonymous (1860) 153

Anonymous (1860) 158

George Saintsbury (1874) 160

Sidney Lanier (1878) 168

Edwin P. Whipple "American Literature" (1886) 169

Walter Lewin "Leaves of Grass" (1887) 169

John Addington Symonds "Democratic Art" (1890) 170

Walt Whitman "An Old Man's Rejoinder" (1890) 173

John Burroughs "His Ruling Ideas and Aims" (1896) 174

C.D. Lanier "Walt Whitman" (1902) 178

Calamus 179

John Addington Symonds "Walt Whitman: A Study" (1893) 179

Drum-Taps 135

Henry James "Mr. Walt Whitman" (1865) 185

William Dean Howells "Drum-Taps" (1865) 191

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" 195

Stephen E. Whicher "Whitman's Awakening to Death-Toward a Biographical Reading of 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'" (1960) 195

"Passage to India" 202

V.K. Chari "Whitman and Indian Thought" (1959) 202

"Song of Myself" 203

Walker Kennedy "Walt Whitman" (1884) 203

Leslie Fiedler (1960) 211.

Notes:

A selection of important older literary criticism on Walt Whitman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791095553

079109555X

OCLC:

123767232