| Description |
xvi, 187 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Writers on writers |
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Writers on writers.
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| Contents |
The music -- The past -- Beginnings -- Vision -- Depths -- The man before the poems -- Self-made -- The notebooks -- Emerson and the greatest poet -- The greatest poet submits a poem for publication -- "I" -- A dare -- "You" -- America -- The modern, one : Baudelaire -- Hugo and Longfellow-- The modern, two : Eliot and Pound -- Others -- The body -- Sex -- Woman -- Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The faggots" -- Nature -- Prophets -- Imagination -- Mortality -- Mortality again -- The sad captain -- Lines -- The voice -- Life after -- What he teaches us. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Influence.
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| ISBN |
9780691144726 cloth alkaline paper $19.95 |
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0691144729 cloth alkaline paper |
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