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Walt Whitman

Evans, Robert C., 1955- (editor.).

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9781642652758
ISBN: 1642652768
ISBN: 9781642652765
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 16, 2019)