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Containing multitudes : Walt Whitman and the British literary tradition / Gary Schmidgall.
LIBRA PS3242.L5 S36 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidgall, Gary, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Knowledge and learning--Literature.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 368 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Leaves and the Retrospective Lands: An Introduction 1
- "Terrible Query": An American Literature? 5
- "That Wonderful Little Island"-British Literature in Leaves 14
- Prospective: "Lacks and Wants Yet" 23
- 2 Shakespeare & Whitman 27
- Whitman and the Bacon Debate 27
- Walt vs. the Bard 31
- Mellifluous and Honey-Tongued Poets 35
- Whitman and the Romantics' Shakespeare: Victor Hugo 48
- Parallel Lives? 57
- 3 Milton & Whitman 63
- Debutant Poets: 1645, 1855 63
- Whitman & America Read Milton 69
- Camerados Close 81
- Life = Art 81
- Self-Esteem 82
- Liberty 83
- Prophet-Seers 84
- Mentor-Poets 87
- Satan and Walt 90
- Answerable Styles? 98
- Strange Bedfellows, After All? 104
- Awakeners 106
- 4 Burns & Whitman 110
- Camerado Bards 110
- Walt Reads Rob 114
- Self-Esteem 124
- Mystic Tie of Brotherhood 127
- The Self-Satisfied Preachers 133
- Outré Beings 137
- Conscious Painful Being 140
- Old Acquaintance 143
- Of Tombs: A Coda 148
- 5 Blake & Whitman 151
- Making the Connection 153
- Two Mystics Together Clinging 167
- Other, Stronger Lessons 172
- Poets of Contrariety and Rebellion 174
- Iconoclasts: Poetry Unfettered 179
- Poets of Sexual Delight 186
- Announcing Adhesiveness 189
- Death's Door: A Coda 196
- 6 Wordsworth & Whitman 200
- Walt on Wordsworth 211
- The "Prelude" to Whitman 224
- Prospectus: Knowing the World 226
- Self-Empowerment 227
- "Green" Poets: Nature and Democracy 230
- "Mighty Scheme of Truth": Prophets of a New Religion 234
- "Great Social Principle of Life": Comradery 240
- At War with General Tendency 245
- "Separate Persons" 247
- 7 Whitman and Some Other "Big Fellows" 252
- Walter Scott 255
- Thomas Carlyle 264
- Alfred Tennyson 272
- Oscar Wilde 280
- Algernon Swinburne 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199374410
- 0199374414
- OCLC:
- 880418754
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