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Critical essays on Walt Whitman / [edited by] James Woodress.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on American literaturePublication details: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1983.Description: ix, 338 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0816186324
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.3 19
LOC classification:
  • PS3238 .C74 1983
Contents:
Introduction -- Reviews and other early reactions -- Essays and other forms of criticism. Reviews And Other Early Reactions -- [Emerson Writes Whitman] / R.W. Emerson -- [The Inital Review of Leaves of Grass] / [Charles A. Dana] -- ["a curious and lawless collection"] / [Charles Eliot Norton] -- ["well worth going ... to buy it"] / [Edward Everett Hale] -- [Whitman Reviews Himself] / [Walt Whitman] -- [A New York Journalist Finds Whitman a Scurvy Fellow] / [Rufus Griswold] -- [The Boston Intelligencer Seconds Griswold] / Anonymous -- [Whitman Victim of "the depravity of public taste"] / Anonymous -- [The New York Daily Times is both Attracted and Repelled] / [William Swinton] -- [A Selection from His Autobiography] / Moncure D. Conway -- [A Selection from His Journals] / Bronson Alcott -- [A Letter about Whitman] / Henry David Thoreau -- ["as unacquainted with art, as a hog is with mathematics"] / Anonymous -- ["a pregnant text-book ... minted gold"] / [William J. Fox] -- ["unmixed and hopeless drivel"] / Anonymous -- ["the genuine stuff in this man"] / Anonymous -- ["these foul and rank leaves"] / Anonymous -- ["a herculean fellow ... with an entire gold mine"] / Anonymous -- The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication / William Douglas O'Connor -- [A Young Novelist Fails to Appreciate Drum-Taps] / William Dean Howells -- [Another Fledgling Novelist Disparages Drum-Taps] / Henry James -- [An Enthusiastic Reaction from Germany] / Ferdinand Freiligrath -- [A Mixed Review from France] / Therese Bentzon -- [The Good Gray Poet Lionized] / Anonymous -- [An Ovation in Boston] / Anonymous -- ["we are presented with the slop-bucket of Walt Whitman"] / Anonymous -- Essays And Other Forms Of Criticism -- "Walt Whitman" / Robert Buchanan -- [Whitman's English Editor Writes a Friend] / William Michael Rossetti -- "An Englishwoman's Estimate of Walt Whitman" / Anne Gilchrist -- Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person / John Burroughs -- "The Poet of Democracy: Walt Whitman" / Edward Dowden -- "The Gospel According to Walt Whitman" / Robert Louis Stevenson -- [An Important American Critic Views Whitman] / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- ["I differ from him utterly"] / Sidney Lanier -- [A Letter to Robert Bridges] / Gerard Manly Hopkins -- Walt Whitman, Chapter III: Analysis of Poems, Continued / Richard Maurice Bucke -- [A Student Visits Walt Whitman in 1886] / C. Sadakichi Hartmann -- "To Walt Whitman in America" / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- "Whitmania" / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- [The Years Work a Change] / William Dean Howells -- [Spoken at Whitman's Funeral] / Robert G. Ingersoll -- [A British Critic Probes Whitman's Treatment of Love] / John Addington Symonds -- ["sometimes sublime, sometimes ridiculous"] / Willa Cather -- "The Poetry of Barbarism" / George Santayana -- "The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness" / William James -- "What I Feel about Walt Whitman" / Ezra Pound -- "The Form: Constructive Principles" / Basil de Selincourt -- "Whitman" / D.H. Lawrence -- "Explication de Texte Applied to Walt Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'" / Leo Spitzer -- "Poetry: The Art" / Stanley Burnshaw -- "Walt Whitman: He Had His Nerve" / Randall Jarrell -- "Walt Whitman and the American Tradition" / Floyd Stovall -- [An Analysis of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"] / Richard Chase -- [An Analysis of "Song of Myself"] / Malcolm Cowley -- "There was a child" / Edwin Haviland Miller -- "The Realm of Whitman's Ideas: Nature" / Gay Wilson Allen -- "The Care and Feeding of Long Poems: The American Epic from Barlow to Berryman" / James E. Miller, Jr. -- "Emerson, Whitman, and the Paradox of Self-Reliance" / Jerome Loving -- "Nationalism vs. Internationalism in Leaves of Grass" / Roger Asselineau.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- Reviews and other early reactions -- Essays and other forms of criticism. Reviews And Other Early Reactions -- [Emerson Writes Whitman] / R.W. Emerson -- [The Inital Review of Leaves of Grass] / [Charles A. Dana] -- ["a curious and lawless collection"] / [Charles Eliot Norton] -- ["well worth going ... to buy it"] / [Edward Everett Hale] -- [Whitman Reviews Himself] / [Walt Whitman] -- [A New York Journalist Finds Whitman a Scurvy Fellow] / [Rufus Griswold] -- [The Boston Intelligencer Seconds Griswold] / Anonymous -- [Whitman Victim of "the depravity of public taste"] / Anonymous -- [The New York Daily Times is both Attracted and Repelled] / [William Swinton] -- [A Selection from His Autobiography] / Moncure D. Conway -- [A Selection from His Journals] / Bronson Alcott -- [A Letter about Whitman] / Henry David Thoreau -- ["as unacquainted with art, as a hog is with mathematics"] / Anonymous -- ["a pregnant text-book ... minted gold"] / [William J. Fox] -- ["unmixed and hopeless drivel"] / Anonymous -- ["the genuine stuff in this man"] / Anonymous -- ["these foul and rank leaves"] / Anonymous -- ["a herculean fellow ... with an entire gold mine"] / Anonymous -- The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication / William Douglas O'Connor -- [A Young Novelist Fails to Appreciate Drum-Taps] / William Dean Howells -- [Another Fledgling Novelist Disparages Drum-Taps] / Henry James -- [An Enthusiastic Reaction from Germany] / Ferdinand Freiligrath -- [A Mixed Review from France] / Therese Bentzon -- [The Good Gray Poet Lionized] / Anonymous -- [An Ovation in Boston] / Anonymous -- ["we are presented with the slop-bucket of Walt Whitman"] / Anonymous -- Essays And Other Forms Of Criticism -- "Walt Whitman" / Robert Buchanan -- [Whitman's English Editor Writes a Friend] / William Michael Rossetti -- "An Englishwoman's Estimate of Walt Whitman" / Anne Gilchrist -- Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person / John Burroughs -- "The Poet of Democracy: Walt Whitman" / Edward Dowden -- "The Gospel According to Walt Whitman" / Robert Louis Stevenson -- [An Important American Critic Views Whitman] / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- ["I differ from him utterly"] / Sidney Lanier -- [A Letter to Robert Bridges] / Gerard Manly Hopkins -- Walt Whitman, Chapter III: Analysis of Poems, Continued / Richard Maurice Bucke -- [A Student Visits Walt Whitman in 1886] / C. Sadakichi Hartmann -- "To Walt Whitman in America" / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- "Whitmania" / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- [The Years Work a Change] / William Dean Howells -- [Spoken at Whitman's Funeral] / Robert G. Ingersoll -- [A British Critic Probes Whitman's Treatment of Love] / John Addington Symonds -- ["sometimes sublime, sometimes ridiculous"] / Willa Cather -- "The Poetry of Barbarism" / George Santayana -- "The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness" / William James -- "What I Feel about Walt Whitman" / Ezra Pound -- "The Form: Constructive Principles" / Basil de Selincourt -- "Whitman" / D.H. Lawrence -- "Explication de Texte Applied to Walt Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'" / Leo Spitzer -- "Poetry: The Art" / Stanley Burnshaw -- "Walt Whitman: He Had His Nerve" / Randall Jarrell -- "Walt Whitman and the American Tradition" / Floyd Stovall -- [An Analysis of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"] / Richard Chase -- [An Analysis of "Song of Myself"] / Malcolm Cowley -- "There was a child" / Edwin Haviland Miller -- "The Realm of Whitman's Ideas: Nature" / Gay Wilson Allen -- "The Care and Feeding of Long Poems: The American Epic from Barlow to Berryman" / James E. Miller, Jr. -- "Emerson, Whitman, and the Paradox of Self-Reliance" / Jerome Loving -- "Nationalism vs. Internationalism in Leaves of Grass" / Roger Asselineau.