Walt Whitman, the critical heritage / edited by Milton Hindus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hindus, Milton.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Whitman, Walt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. <BR> This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of <EM>Critical Heritage </EM> published by Routledge in October 1995.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; A Note on Sources; Introduction; 1855-60; 1. Emerson's letter to Whitman; 2. The first notice; 3. Charles Eliot Norton's review; 4. Moncure Conway visits Whitman; 5. Norton and Lowell disagree; 6. Rufus W. Griswold on Whitman; 7. Whitman's anonymous self-reviews; (a) Unsigned review, United States Review; (b) Unsigned review, American Phrenological Journal 1856; (c) Unsigned review, Brooklyn Daily Times 1856; 8. Edward Everett Hale on Whitman; 9. Extracts from an unsigned notice; 10. An English reaction; 11. An American echo

12. 'impious and obscene'13. Bronson Alcott on Whitman; 14. Thoreau on Whitman; 15. 'It is a lie to... review... one's own book'; 16. A favourable English reaction; 17. 'His style is everywhere graphic'; 18. 'full of beauties and blemishes'; 19. Lincoln and Leaves of Grass 1857 (?); 20. ' a wild Tupper of the West'; 21. Praise and blame; 22. ' It is the healthiest book, morally'; 23. Three views of i860; 24. 'the primordial music of nature'; 25. More puzzling than Swedenborg; 26. 'the Leaves ... resemble the Hebrew Scriptures'; 27. 'a curious warble' ?; 1865-92; 28. Henry James on Whitman

29. William Douglas O'Connor on Whitman30. Rossetti's London edition 1868; 31. Review of the London edition; 32. Swinburne on Whitman; 33. Anne Gilchrist on Whitman; 34. Edward Dowden on Whitman; 35. 'Whitman's style . .. is his greatest contribution'; 36. A belated appreciation; 37. Saintsbury on Whitman; 38. Peter Bayne on Whitman 1875; 39. Lanier on Whitman; 40. Some views of the 1880s; (a) EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN l880; (b) JOHN TODHUNTER l880; (c) FITZGERALD MOLLOY 1882; (d) GEORGE C. MACAULAY 1882; (e) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1887; 41. 'caviare to the multitude'

42. 'taken in hand by a reputable publisher43. A writer of almost insane violence; 44. Gerard Manley Hopkins on Whitman; 45. Swinburne on Whitmania; 46. Knut Hamsun on Whitman; 47. Harriet Monroe on Whitman; 1893-1914; 48. John Addington Symonds on Whitman; 49. T. W. Rolleston on Whitman; 50. William James on Whitman; 51. Max Nordau on Whitman; 52. William Dean Howells on Whitman; 53. John Burroughs on Whitman; 54. William Sloane Kennedy on Whitman; 55. Henry James on Whitman; 56. John Jay Chapman on Whitman; 57. Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Whitman; 58. Santayana on Whitman

59. Basil de Selincourt on WhitmanBibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1971.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 18, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-21343-0

0-415-85210-2

1-315-00597-2

1-136-21336-8

9781315005973

OCLC:

869091014