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Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

Walt Whitman

Universityof California Press for KarenSánchezEppler, Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and thePolitics ofthe Body, 1993. University of IowaPressfor Alicia Ostriker, “Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America,” from RobertK. Martin ...
Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

Walt Whitman

A Tale of the Times Walt Whitman Christopher Castiglia, Glenn Hendler. CHRISTOPHERCASTIGLIAisa professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture- Crossing and White ...
A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman

A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman

Gay Wilson Allen

This text is an analysis and evaluation of current interpretations and approaches to Whitman's poetry. It is a capstone to Gay Wilson Allen's long career devoted to the study of A Bible for Democracy (Whitman's phrase for Leaves of Grass).
Walt Whitman: The Correspondence

Walt Whitman: The Correspondence

Walt Whitman

From Benjamin R. Tucker. CT: WWWC2: 253–54. May 26. From Fred R. Guernsey, of the Boston Herald. May 28. From Van Doran Stafford. May 29. From William D. O''Connor. CT: WWWC3: 282–84. May 29. From John G. Willson, requesting WW''s presence at the “Melancholy Club.” June (?). From William Sloane Kennedy. June 1. From the Philadelphia Progress. Penn. June 3. From George W. Christy, an offended reader. LC. June 3. From William D. O''Connor. CT: WWWC1: 52–54.
The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

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Thomas L. Brasher (New York: New York University Press, 1963). Prose Works 1892 ... The Solitary Singer:ACritical BiographyofWalt Whitman. 1955; rev. ed. ... Brasher, Thomas L. Whitman asEditor of the Brooklyn DailyEagle. Detroit: Wayne  ...
American Poetry: The Puritans Through Walt Whitman

American Poetry: The Puritans Through Walt Whitman

Alan Shucard

Traces the development of an American style in the works of Bradstreet, Wheatley, Longfellow, Emerson, and Whitman.
Walt Whitman & Odysseus Elytis: Beyond Being and Time

Walt Whitman & Odysseus Elytis: Beyond Being and Time

Katerina Andriotis

Through the use of extensive research, The work suggests that there is a common ground that Whitman and Elytis share, that is to say, their philosophy on language and poetry.
Journal of the ... Convention of the National Woman's Relief ...

Journal of the ... Convention of the National Woman's Relief ...

Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

... Roxbury, Betsie C. Sampson, Whitman, Laura A. Brown, Whitman, Helen G. Bonney, Whitman, Arabella Bowen, Whitman, Lucy A. Gurney, Whitman, Lizzie B. Bosworth, Whitman, Annie F. Hull, Whitman, Annie E. Tuttle, Lowell, Mary E. Uffutt , ...
Tamiris: a chronicle of her dance career, 1927-1955

Tamiris: a chronicle of her dance career, 1927-1955

Christena L. Schlundt

Walt Whitman Suite Premiere, cont Lil Chillen and Go Down Moses Tamiris; Twentieth Century Bacchante Tamiris; Impressions of the Bull Ring Tamiris Piano , Genevieve Pitot; costumes, Tamiris Mirage Tamiris; Hypocrisy Tamiris; Walt ...
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

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See also SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA, WHITMAN IN Born, Helena (1860- 1901) Helena Born moved with her friend Miriam Daniell from England to the Boston area in 1890. Born in Devonshire, England, Born moved with her parents to ...
The Correspondence, 1842-1867

The Correspondence, 1842-1867

Walt Whitman

I can at present only briefly say that should I be able to prepare an article, or poem, appropriate for the purposes of the magazine, I will send it on—& that I shall surely try to do so. My address is at the Attorney General''s office here. (New York house, please forward this to Mr. Edmund Routledge, London.) 263. To William D. O''Connor [1867?Y2 I have a half-hour''s lull. If handy, send me down the proofs—or, if you prefer, (& can,) come down a moment. Walt. 264. To William D. O''Connor ...
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

Evan Roskos

2014 Morris Award finalist “I hate myself but I love Walt Whitman, the kook.
Gems from Walt Whitman

Gems from Walt Whitman

Elizabeth Porter Gould

We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Walt Disney: Entertainment Visionary

Walt Disney: Entertainment Visionary

Martin Gitlin

Neal Gabler. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 111. Chapter 2. Walt's Wild Imagination 1. Katherine Greene and Richard Greene. The Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney.
Poets Thinking

Poets Thinking

Helen Vendler

The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic.
Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern

Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern

William Slocombe

... Discourses ofHeredityand CaribbeanLiterature Rudyard J.Alcocer B ETWEENPROFITSAND P RIMITIVISM Shaping White MiddleClass Masculinity in the United States 1880—1917 Athena Devlin P OETRY ANDREPETITION Walt Whitman, ...
Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary ...

Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary ...

Gary Schmidgall

No wonder, as John Tanner and Justin Collings have said, that Jefferson was “ powerfully drawn to Milton's Satan, for whom he never lost his youthful sympathy. ” Most of his quotations from the poem are from Satan's “grandly defiant speeches.
Whitman's Self: Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Walt ...

Whitman's Self: Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Walt ...

Paul Hourihan

"At a time like this, Dr. Hourihan performs a valuable service by his courageous reaffirmation of what is of permanent value in the life and works of one of the most original minds in American literature.
Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura ...

Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura ...

C. Billitteri

This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most ...
Walt Whitman (Classic Reprint)

Walt Whitman (Classic Reprint)

Bliss Perry

About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K.

Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K.

M. Wynn Thomas

For the change in firefight- ing during Whitman's early years from volunteers to municipal employees see Mark Tebeau, Eating Smoke: Fire in America, 1850- 1950 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). 12. The details that follow ...
To Walt Whitman, America

To Walt Whitman, America

Kenneth M. Price

Susan Prendergast Schoelwer notes that there were generations of intermarriage . See "The Absent Other: Women in the Land and Art of Mountain Men" in Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West ( New ...
Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in ...

Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in ...

Sarah Relyea

1880—1917 Athena Devlin POETRY AND REPETITION Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery Krystyna Mazur THE FICTION OF NATIONALITY IN AN ERA OF TRANSNATIONALISM Nyla AliKhan GENDERED PATHOLOGIES The ...

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