Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial EssaysSusan Belasco, Ed Folsom, Kenneth M. Price U of Nebraska Press, 2007 - 504 Seiten Contains seventeen essays by pre-eminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus on Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". This book features contributors who treat Whitman's poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic issues, and nineteenth-century America. |
Inhalt
Foregrounding the First Edition | 33 |
Whitmans | 62 |
Accentuated | 87 |
The Sleepers in 1855 | 124 |
Flights | 141 |
Contextualizing the First Edition | 177 |
Leaves of Grass 1855 and the Cities | 199 |
The Lost Negress of Song of Myself and | 224 |
Walt Whitman as an Eminent Victorian | 282 |
Horace Traubel | 299 |
Whitman Eliot Matthiessen | 321 |
The Centenary | 343 |
The Life behind the Book | 361 |
The Backgrounds | 378 |
Songs of Myself or Confessions of a Whitman | 402 |
My Encounters with Whitman | 417 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 2 - One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The...