Walt Whitman / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Series:

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Sex (Psychology) in literature.

Democracy in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Provides an introduction to Walt Whitman and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Walt Whitman is widely considered one of the most innovative and influential of all American poets. In fact, his poetry has also affected many writers and other kinds of artists (such as composers) in various places outside America. Whitman wrote in a loose, free-flowing style that is all his own but that also inspired many later writers, such as Carl Sandburg and Allen Ginsberg (to mention only two of many poets who deliberately took Whitman as a model). But Whitman is notable and influential not only for his way of writing but also for the topics he addressed. These include (among many others) freedom, sexuality, the lives of common people, democratic values and aspirations, and a kind of spirituality not necessarily tethered to conventional religion. This volume provides readers with a better understanding of Whitman the person, the thinker, and the artist.

Contents:

Walt Whitman and me / David S. Reynolds

Biography of Walt Whitman / Robert C. Evans

Clerk Trouble: Masculinity, consumerism, and Whitman's print culture / Jason Stacy

Recent editions of Whitman's poetry: A survey / Robert C. Evans

"Closer yet I approach you": Acts of crossing in Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Joyce E. Kelley

Lucifer in Leaves of Grass / Daniel Mackay

Walt Whitman in his social context / Christopher Baker

What Walt Whitman means to the Negro / Kelly Miller

"Whitman: The poet-liberator of woman" / Mabel MacCoy Irwin

Early responses to Whitman's homoeroticism / W.C. Rivers and anonymous reviewers

Walt Whitman and the "homophile" movement in the 1950s: Evidence in the archives of the "one institute" / Robert C. Evans

Rockwell Kent's illustrations for Leaves of Grass / Robert C. Evans

Singing the body eclectic: The corporeal in Whitman's poetry / Nicolas Tredell

"I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there": Masculinity, suffering and the presence in Whitman / Nicolas Tredell

Walt Whitman, immigration, and the music of democracy / Brian Yothers

Reflections on Walt Whitman / Karen Karbiener.

Notes:

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642652758

164265275X

OCLC:

1107429326

Publisher Number:

99983925657