Author:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Imprint:New York ; London : Routledge, 2005.
Descriptionxiii, 210 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman (21 July 1855). - from "New Publications: Leaves of Grass," New York Daily Tribune (23 July 1855) / Charles A. Dana. - "Leaves of Grass - an Extraordinary Book," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (15 September 1855) / Anonymous. - "Walt Whitman and His Poems," United States Review (5 September 1855) / [Walt Whitman]. - Untitled review of Leaves of Grass, Criterion 1 (10 November 1855) / Rufus W. Griswold. - "Fresh Fern Leaves: Leaves of Grass," New York Ledger (10 May 1856) / Fanny Fern. - "Whitman's Leaves of Grass," [New York] Critic 1 (5 November 1881) / Anonymous. - "Walt Whitman's Poems," Literary World 12 (19 November 1881) / Anonymous. - "Recent Poetry," Nation 33 (15 December 1881) / Thomas Wentworth Higginson. - from Cheerful Yesterdays (1898) / Thomas W. Higginson. - from Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900) / William Dean Howells. - "A Tribute of Grasses" (1893) / Hamlin Garland. - "A Pact" (1915) / Ezra Pound. - from Introduction to Modern Library edition of Leaves of Grass (1921) / Carl Sandburg. - from Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) / D. H. Lawrence. - "I, Too" (1924) / Langston Hughes. - "Ode to Walt Whitman" (1935) / Michael Gold. - from "Some Lines from Whitman" (1953) / Randall Jarrell. - "A Supermarket in California" (1955) / Allen Ginsberg. - "We Live in a Whitmanesque Age" (1972) / Pablo Neruda. - from Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988) / Lawrence W. Levine. - from "Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America" (1992) / Alicia Ostriker. - from Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (1993) / Karen Sánchez-Eppler. - from Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction (1997) / Susan S. Williams.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
