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On Whitman / C.K. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-2015.
- Series:
- Writers on writers.
- Writers on writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--19th century.
- Authors, American.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it-to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note
- The Music The Music The Past
- The Past
- Beginnings
- Depths
- The Man Before The Poems
- Self-Made
- The Notebooks
- Emerson and The Greatest Poet
- The Greatest Poet Submits a Poem for Publication
- "I"
- A Dare
- "You"
- America
- The Modern, One: Baudelaire
- Hugo and Longfellow
- The Modern, Two: Eliot and Pound
- Others
- The Body
- Sex
- Woman
- Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The Faggots"
- Nature
- Prophets
- Imagination
- Mortality
- Mortality Again
- The Sad Captain
- Lines
- The Voice
- Life After
- What He Teaches Us
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612608247
- 9781282608245
- 128260824X
- 9781400834334
- 1400834333
- OCLC:
- 638860620
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