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Walt Whitman
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Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples by Michael RobertsonISBN: 9780691146317
Publication Date: 2010-03-14
Worshipping Walt is the first book on the Whitman disciples--the fascinating, eclectic group of nineteenth-century men and women who regarded Walt Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. In this transatlantic group biography, Michael Robertson explores the highly charged connections between Whitman and his followers, including Canadian psychiatrist R. M. Bucke, American nature writer John Burroughs, British activist Edward Carpenter, and the notorious Oscar Wilde.
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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David S. ReynoldsISBN: 9780394580234
Publication Date: 1995-03-28
In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life.
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Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song by Jim Perlman (Editor); Dan Campion (Editor); Ed Folsom (Editor)ISBN: 9780930100780
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
This monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman. Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter, this edition contains responses from Thoreau, Pound, Lawrence, Neruda, Borges, Ginsberg, Jordan, Duncan, LeSueur, Rich, Snyder and Alexie, among many others.
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Whitman's Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass by Tenney NathansonISBN: 9780814757703
Publication Date: 1992-06-01
Nathanson addresses with renewed insight a problem that has vexed Whitman scholars at least since James E. Miller, Jr.'s A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass turned Whitman into a respectable academic subject; that is, the unusual status of Whitman's poetic voice. The overall result is the finest articulation of Whitman's project in existence.
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Walt Whitman by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)ISBN: 9780877546030
Publication Date: 1986-11-01
This book provides an absorbing chronicle of critical responses to Walt Whitman's poetry. Harold Bloom edited this volume as part of the Modern Critical Views series.
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Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul ZweigISBN: 9780465090594
Publication Date: 1984-04-18
This book traces the life and career of Walt Whitman through a period of transition. Paul Zweig discusses Whitman's early life and the development of Whitman's literary style.
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Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History by Martin T. BuinickiISBN: 9781609380700
Publication Date: 2011-12-01
In this innovative and insightful analysis of the considerable poetic and personal reimagining that is the hallmark of the postwar years, Martin Buinicki reveals the ways that Whitman reconstructed and read the American Civil War. Buinicki places Whitman's postwar periodical publications and business interests in context. He traces Whitman's shifting views of Ulysses S. Grant as yet another way to understand the poet's postwar life and profession and reveals the emergence of Whitman the public historian.
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Whitman among the Bohemians by Joanna Levin (Editor); Edward Whitley (Editor)ISBN: 9781609382933
Publication Date: 2014-10-01
Whitman among the Bohemians explores in depth the connections Whitman made at Pfaff's beer cellar and the impact they had on him, his poetry, and his career. In telling the story of these intersecting social and professional links that converged at Pfaff's in the late 1850s and early 1860s, the essays in this volume powerfully demonstrate just how much we can learn about Whitman and his work by viewing him within the context of American bohemia.
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Idioms of Ontology: A Phenomenological Study of Whitman by Wojciech MajkaISBN: 9781443842747
Publication Date: 2013-03-01
This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a typically phenomenological context, silhouetting the notion of selfhood against the views of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emanuel Levinas. Moreover, the book differentiates between the overall understanding of subjectivity and selfhood.
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Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet by Ivy WilsonISBN: 9781609382360
Publication Date: 2014-05-01
Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet explores the meaning of blacks and blackness in Whitman's imagination and, equally significant, also illuminates the aura of Whitman in African American letters from Langston Hughes to June Jordan, Margaret Walker to Yusef Komunyakaa. The essays, which feature academic scholars and poets alike, address questions of literary history, the textual interplay between author and narrator, and race and poetic influence.
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In Walt We Trust by John MarshISBN: 9781583674758
Publication Date: 2015-02-22
Mired in personal and political depression, Marsh turned to Whitman--and it saved his life. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself is a book about how Walt Whitman can save America's life, too. Marsh identifies four sources for our contemporary malaise and then looks to a particular Whitman poem for relief from it. He makes plain what, exactly, Whitman wrote and what he believed by showing how they emerged from Whitman's life and times.
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Walt Whitman by David S. ReynoldsISBN: 9780195170092
Publication Date: 2005-01-07
In this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. Reynolds also examines the influence of theater, describing how Whitman's favorite actor, the tragedian Junius Brutus Booth, developed a powerfully emotive stage style that influenced Leaves of Grass.
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