Whitman : a collection of critical essays / edited by Roy Harvey Pearce.

Pearce, Roy Harvey, (editor.).

Summary:

14 critical interpretations of this giant of American poetry, who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'.

Record details

ISBN: 9780139445958
ISBN: 0139445951
Physical Description: 183 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1962]
Copyright: ©1962

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Roy Harvey Pearce -- Walt Whitman / Ezra Pound -- Whitman / D.H. Lawrence -- Leaves of grass and the American paradox / John Kinnaird -- Whitman justified : the poet in 1860 / Roy Harvey Pearce -- America's epic / James Miller, Jr. -- Only a language experiment / F.O. Matthiesssen -- Whitman as symbolist / Charles Feidelson, Jr. -- Whitman's style : from mysticism to art / Roger Asselineau -- The new Adam : Whitman / R.W.B. Lewis -- Whitman's poetic ensembles / Walter Sutton -- The shaping of the American character / Perry Miller -- An essay on leaves of grass / William Carlos Williams -- Walt Whitman as American spokesman / Richard Chase -- The poetry of praise / Josephine Miles -- Chronology of important events / Roy Harvey Pearce.