Author: Marion Walker Alcaro
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838633816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the biography of Anne Burrows Gilchrist, an Englishwoman of letters and widow of Blake's biographer, who fell in love with Wait Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass. In 1876 she came to America hoping to marry Whitman, but instead became his beloved friend. Illustrated.
Walt Whitman's Mrs. G
Author: Marion Walker Alcaro
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838633816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the biography of Anne Burrows Gilchrist, an Englishwoman of letters and widow of Blake's biographer, who fell in love with Wait Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass. In 1876 she came to America hoping to marry Whitman, but instead became his beloved friend. Illustrated.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838633816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the biography of Anne Burrows Gilchrist, an Englishwoman of letters and widow of Blake's biographer, who fell in love with Wait Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass. In 1876 she came to America hoping to marry Whitman, but instead became his beloved friend. Illustrated.
Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850Ð1920
Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047805
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047805
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Walt Whitman
Author: Jerome Loving
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520226876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Loving offers a sharp focus of the man who is generally considered America's greatest poet. This splendid work reveals him as fully as anything can, except his poems.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520226876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Loving offers a sharp focus of the man who is generally considered America's greatest poet. This splendid work reveals him as fully as anything can, except his poems.
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity
Author: David Haven Blake
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300134819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300134819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon.
Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers
Author: Sherry Ceniza
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081735753X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An interesting academic study of the influence of certain 19th-century women reformers on Walt Whitman, as evidenced by his poetry, prose, and correspondence.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081735753X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An interesting academic study of the influence of certain 19th-century women reformers on Walt Whitman, as evidenced by his poetry, prose, and correspondence.
Critical Companion to Walt Whitman
Author: Charles M. Oliver
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 in Context
Author: Joanna Levin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108314473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108314473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
Daybooks and Notebooks
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794327
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America's most important poets. Daybooks and Notebooks is an invaluable source for reference on Whitman’s daily activities. This sixteen-year record supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitman's Correspondence, functioning as an account book, diary, journal, commonplace book, and notebook all in one. When Whitman began to keep them, the Daybooks were a personal record of predominantly business matters. As William White wrote in the introduction, “He was not only the author but the publisher of his works: he was likewise his own business manager, ship, and promoter. Whatever records he kept, of his sales and distribution, of printing and binding figures, of poetry and prose he sent to newspapers and magazines . . . he entered on the right-hand pages.” Volume II thus offers a rare look at Whitman as a businessman, tending as much to practical matters as to art.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794327
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America's most important poets. Daybooks and Notebooks is an invaluable source for reference on Whitman’s daily activities. This sixteen-year record supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitman's Correspondence, functioning as an account book, diary, journal, commonplace book, and notebook all in one. When Whitman began to keep them, the Daybooks were a personal record of predominantly business matters. As William White wrote in the introduction, “He was not only the author but the publisher of his works: he was likewise his own business manager, ship, and promoter. Whatever records he kept, of his sales and distribution, of printing and binding figures, of poetry and prose he sent to newspapers and magazines . . . he entered on the right-hand pages.” Volume II thus offers a rare look at Whitman as a businessman, tending as much to practical matters as to art.
So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
Author: Harold Aspiz
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731377X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731377X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
Annual Report
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description