Author: William Douglas O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Good Gray Poet (Walt Whitman). A Vindication
Author: William Douglas O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Good Gray Poet
Author: William Douglas O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication
Author: William Douglas O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781704351629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Walt Whitman worked at three government jobs in his time in Washington. In 1865, he was fired as a clerk in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Secretary of the Interior James Harlan, who found Leaves of Grass to be indecent. Whitman's great friend William Douglas O'Connor responded twofold. He arranged for a new job for Whitman in the Attorney General's Office, and he published The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. The pamphlet defended the poet, put a positive spin on his notoriety, and successfully created a whole new benevolent image for Whitman.Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published Whitman's third edition of Leaves of Grass and O'Connor's only novel, Harrington: A Story of True Love. Two years later their paths crossed again when Whitman traveled to Washington, D.C., to search its military hospitals for his brother George, who had been wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg. O'Connor welcomed Whitman into his home and quickly became Whitman's friend and an ardent defender of Whitman's poetry. Since their first meeting, O'Connor had turned from his artistic pursuits as a daguerreotypist, poet, and short-story writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor (at the Saturday Evening Post in Philadelphia) to the more steady position of a clerk in the Treasury Department.
The Good Gray Poet, A Vindication
Author: William Douglas O'ConnorPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
In 1864 the poet, Walt Whitman, was terminated from his job as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior. The reason was that the incoming Secretary of the Department read 'Leaves of Grass' and decided that Whitman was a publisher of vulgar literature. William Douglas O'Connor was a close friend and published this book to defend Whitman and 'Leaves of Grass' by stating that a lot of classic literature is filled with profanity and obscenity and that the book was one of them.
Democratic Vistas
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
American Poems ( 1625-1892
Author: Walter C. Bronson American Poems, 1625-1892
Author: Walter Cochrane BronsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Critical Companion to Walt Whitman
Author: Charles M. OliverPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108583
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.
Walt Whitman
Author: John E. SchwiebertPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476646090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and religion to sexuality, gender, class, and identity. He exuberantly incarnated his epoch at the same time as he invoked "you"-- readers and "poets to come"--to join in a "poetry of the future." The first A to Z Whitman reference to incorporate 21st century scholarship, this work is ideal for readers who want a concise introduction to the major poems and prose and to the people, places, and topics central to his life. Each of the book's 142 entries is followed by cross-references to related entries and suggestions for further reading. Also included are a brief biography, a chronology of Whitman's life and major works, and a bibliography of some 300 primary and secondary sources on this most timeless and contemporary of poets.
The good gray poet
Author: William Douglas O'ConnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description