Intimate with Walt : selections from Whitman's conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 / edited by Gary Schmidgall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919.

Contributor:

Schmidgall, Gary, 1945-

Series:

Iowa Whitman series.

The Iowa Whitman series

Standardized Title:

With Walt Whitman in Camden. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American--19th century--Interviews.

Poets, American.

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

United States.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Interviews.

Whitman, Walt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In March 1888 Horace Traubel, Whitman's loyal and hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the most famous resident of Camden. The result: more than 1,900,000 words that were eventually published between 1906 and 1996 in nine volumes. Titled With Walt Whitman in Camden, these volumes contain much that is mundane and repetitive, but they also include many passages crucial for a full and humane understanding of America's first great national poet.

Contents:

Introduction; The Mickle Street Ménage; Serendipity: Visitors and Vignettes; Walt on Walt; Walt on the Whitman Family; Walt on Images of Himself; Memories of Long Island, Brooklyn,and Manhattan; Credos; Walt on the Literary Life; Before ""Leaves of Grass""; About ""Leaves of Grass""; Individual Poems and Sequences; Printing ""Leaves of Grass""; ""Leaves of Grass"" and the Critics; Advice; Expurgation; Waning Powers; Avowal Letters; Walt and His Inner Circle; A Flaminger Soul: William Douglas O'Connor; Magnificent Potencies: Robert Green Ingersoll; Walt and His Boys; Walt's "Big Secret"

Views of AmericaAffection, Love, and Sex; The Woman Sex; Memories of Washington and the Secession War; Turned to a Generous Key: Abraham Lincoln; Race; Famous Authors; Walt and the Bard; Sweet Magnetic Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Oxygenated Men and Women: Walt's Pantheon; Scoundrel Time; Ecclesiastic; Music, Opera, and Marietta; Bottoms Up; Walt's Way with Words; Peeves; Pleasures; Walt on Various and Sundry; "A Frightful Gone-ness" -The Physical Decline; "A Voice from Death" -The Last Months; "The Last Mile Driven" -The End; "The Touch of Peace" -Mortuary; The Burial House at Harleigh Cemetery

The Last Hurrah: May 1919Citations; Bibliographical Note; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587293382

1587293382

OCLC:

50321153