American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet / Edward Whitley.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Whitley, Edward Keyes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Appreciation--United States.
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
• National characteristics, American, in literature.
• Poets, American--19th century.
• Whitfield, James Monroe, 1822-1871.
• Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887.
• Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867.
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Influence.
• Poets, American.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 248 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]

Contents:

• James M. Whitfield: the poet of slaves
• Eliza R. Snow: poet of a new American religion
• John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird): the first white aboriginal
• Walt Whitman: an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780807834213
• 0807834211

OCLC:

564132784