So long! : Walt Whitman's poetry of death / Harold Aspiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aspiz, Harold, 1921-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in literature.

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

Whitman, Walt.

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

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Prose.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Walt Whitman's poetry of death

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores Whitman's intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman's career as thinker, poet, and person. Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly "Song of Myself," and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life--the cascade of sounds, sights, and smells that erupt in his verse--

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: "Great Poems of Death"; 1. "Triumphal Drums for the Dead": "Song of Myself,"" 1855; 2. "Great Is Death": Leaves of Grass Poems, 1855; 3. "The Progress of Souls": Leaves of Grass, 1856; 4. "So Long!": Leaves of Grass, 1860; 5. "Come Sweet Death!": The Drum-Taps Poems, 1865-1866; 6. "Sweet, Peaceful, Welcome Death": Leaves of Grass, 1867-1892; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8163-5

OCLC:

320324080