| Description |
viii, 139 pages ; 24 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to literature |
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Life -- Youth and literary apprenticeship (1819-1850) -- The emergence of the poet (1851-1860) -- The war and its aftermath (1861-1873) -- The period of reflection and decline (1873-1892) -- Chapter 2: Historical and cultural contexts -- Democracy -- The body -- The land -- The culture -- Chapter 3: Poetry before the Civil War -- 1855: "Song of myself" -- Other poems dating from the 1855 Leaves of Grass -- 1856: poems of sexuality and the body -- 1856: poems of the earth -- 1856: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -- 1860: Sea-Drift poems -- 1860: gendered clusters -- "Children of Adam" and "Calamus" -- Chapter 4: Poetry after the Civil War -- Elegiac poems -- The emergence of the image -- Minor poetic modes -- Chapter 5: Prose works -- The 1855 preface -- Democratic Vistas -- Specimen Days -- Chapter 6: Critical reception -- The first fifty years, 1855-1905 -- 1905-1955 -- 1955-2005. |
| Summary |
Focusing on his masterpiece 'Leaves of Grass', this volume offers a foundation for the study of Whitman. Alongside close readings of his major texts, there are chapters on Whitman's biography, the history & culture of his time, & the critical reception of his work. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. (OCoLC)fst00039575
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Poets, American -- Biography. (OCoLC)fst01067797
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
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| Added Title |
Walt Whitman |
| ISBN |
0521854563 (hardback) |
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9780521854566 (hardback) |
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0521670942 (pbk.) |
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9780521670944 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780521670944 |
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