| Description |
482 pages ; 19 cm |
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Penguin critical anthologies |
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Penguin education |
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Penguin Education.
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| Contents |
Table of dates -- pt. 1. Contemporaneous criticism. Ralph Waldo Emerson : Letter to Walt Whitman (1855) -- Walt Whitman (anonymously) : 'An English and an American poet' -- Edward Everett Hale (anonymously) : Review of Leaves of Grass (1856) -- Walt Whitman : 'A letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson', Leaves of Grass (1856) -- Henry David Thoreau : Letter to Harrison Blake (1856) -- William Howitt and others (anonymously) from 'Leaves-Droppings', a selection of reviews appended by Whitman to the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass -- Walt Whitman : An American Primer (between 1855 and 1860, first published in 1904) -- Henry James : 'Mr. Walt Whitman', a review of Drum-Taps (1865) -- William Dean Howells : Review of Drum-Taps (1865) -- Matthew Arnold from a letter to W. D. O'Connor (1866) -- John Burroughs from a review of Drum-Taps (1866) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne from Under the Microscope (1872) -- Walt Whitman : 'Nature and Democracy - Morality', Specimen Days and Collect (1882) -- Walt Whitman : 'Ventures, on an old Theme: Notes Left Over', Specimen Days and Collect (1882) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins : Letter to Robert Bridges (1882) -- Walt Whitman : 'Slang in America' (1885), November Boughs (1888) -- Walt Whitman : 'A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads', November Boughs (1888) -- Walt Whitman in conversation (1888-9) -- George Santayana : 'Walt Whitman: A Dialogue' (1890) -- Edward Dowden from 'The Poetry of Democracy', Studies in Literature 1789-1877 (1892) -- |
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pt. 2. The developing debate. Henry James from a review of Calamus: Walt Whitman's Letters to Peter Doyle (1898) -- John Jay Chapman from 'Walt Whitman', Emerson and Other Essays (1898) -- George Santayana from 'The Poetry of Barbarism', Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900) -- William James from 'The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness', the Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) -- G. K. Chesterton : 'Conventions and the Hero' (1904) -- Paul Elmer More from 'Walt Whitman', Shelburne Essays (1906) -- Bliss Perry from Walt Whitman (1906) -- Ezra Pound : 'What I Feel about Walt Whitman' (1909) -- Basil de Selincourt from Walt Whitman: A Critical Study (1914) -- D. H. Lawrence : 'Poetry of the Present', introduction to the American edition of New Poems (1920) -- D. H. Lawrence : 'Whitman' (1921) -- T. S. Eliot : 'Whitman and Tennyson' (1926), a review of Emory Holloway's Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative -- Amy Lowell : 'Walt Whitman and the New Poetry' (1926-7) -- Constance Rourke from 'I Hear America Singing', American Humor (1931) -- Frederik Schyberg from 'Leaves of Grass 1855-89', Walt Whitman (1933) -- D. Mirsky from 'Poet of American Democracy' (1935) -- |
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pt. 3. Modern views. Newton Arvin from 'Science and the Unseen', Walt Whitman (1938) -- F. O. Matthiessen : 'Words! book-words! what are you?', American Renaissance (1941) -- Lionel Trilling : 'Sermon on a Text from Whitman' (1945) -- Yvor Winters from 'The Significance of The Bridge by Hart Crane, or What are We to Think of Professor X?', In Defense of Reason (1947) -- Randall Jarrell : 'Some Lines from Whitman', Poetry and the Age (1953) -- Charles Feidelson Jr. from Symbolism in American Literature (1953) -- William Carlos Williams from "An Essay on Leaves of Grass' (1955) -- Richard Chase from Walt Whitman Reconsidered (1955) -- Malcolm Cowley from his introduction to Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (1959) -- Leslie Fiedler from 'Walt Whitman: Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Hero', No! in Thunder (1960) -- Roy Harvey Pearce : 'Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1860' (1961) -- Richard Chase : 'Out of the Cradle as a Romance' (1962) -- Roger Asselineau : 'Style - From Mysticism to Art', The Evolution of Walt Whitman (1962) -- Gay Wilson Allen : 'Walt Whitman" the Search for a "Democratic" Structure', Walt Whitman Handbook (1962) -- Martin Green from 'Twain and Whitman', Re-appraisals (1963) -- Denis Donoghue : 'Walt Whitman', Connoisseurs of Chaos (1965) -- R. W. B. Lewis from 'Always Going Out and Coming In', Trials of the Word (1965) -- Louis Simpson : Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain from Selected Poems (1965) |
| Analysis |
Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 |
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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 Criticism and interpretation |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 461-462 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 461-462 |
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Includes index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Biography.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
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| Author |
Murphy, Francis.
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| LC no. |
71485693 |
| ISBN |
0140801022 |
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