The evolution of Walt Whitman / by Roger Asselineau ; foreword by Ed Folsom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asselineau, Roger.

Series:

Iowa Whitman Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poets, American.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (816 p.)

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman was already articulated by Asselineau nearly half a century ago. Throughout its eight hundred pages, The Evolution of Walt Whitman speaks with authority on a vast range of topics that define both Whitman the man and Whitman the mythical personage. Remarkably, most of these discuss

Contents:

The creation of a personality

The creation of a book.

Notes:

Originally published: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960-1962.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-60938-033-9

OCLC:

773567044