Walt Whitman Song Of Myself

NULL Whitman: Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Walt Whitman's Song of Myse A sourcebook and Critical Edition, ROUTLEDGE, ISBN: 041527544X
Since 1855, Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American.This Routledge Literary Sourcebook provides easy access to: *contextual information, including biographical details and a chronology*an overview of the poem's critical reception and extracts from important criticism, with clear introductory headnotes*key passages from the original 1855 edition, with commentary and annotation*the full 'final' 1881 edition of the poem.Cross-references link the critical, contextual and textual sections and suggestions for further reading complete the volume. This sourcebook is ideal for readers with no knowledge of the poem, or for those returning anew to a favourite text.

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Thorp, Willard (editor) (Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Walt Whitman): GREAT SHORT WORKS OF THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: Walden; Civil Disobedience; Twice Told Tales; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The Lightning Rod Man; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Song of Myself; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, New York Perennial Classics - Harper and Row 1968
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(xvii) 748 pp. Perennial Book P3080. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; faint mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. This collection contains: RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Fifteen poems; and these essays: Nature; The American Scholar; The Divinity School Address; The Over Soul; Self Reliance; The Poet; Thoreau - from Atlantic Monthly 1862; and a letter to Walt Whitman. HENRY DAVID THOREAU: Selections from Walden: Economy; Where I Lived and What I Lived For; Sounds; Higher Laws; The Pond in Winter; Spring; and Conclusion; followed by Civil Disobedience and five poems; On Emerson; and Letters to Walt Whitman. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: Preface to the 1851 Edition of Twice Told Tales; Tales: The Minister's Black Veil; The Maypole of Merry Mount; Young Goodman Brown; Rappaccini's Daughter; Ethan Brand; The Celestial Railroad; On Thoreau - from his Journals; Review of Melville's Typee in the Salem Advertiser - 1946; and On Melville - from The English Notebooks. HERMAN MELVILLE: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The Lightning Rod Man; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles: Sketch First: The Isles at Large; Sketch Eighth: Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow; and I and My Chimney; followed by fourteen poems; Letter to Emerson; Hawthorne and His Mosses; and Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne. WALT WHITMAN: Selections from Democratic Vistas; and thirteen poems: Song of Myself; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; and others; followed by excerpts from a Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson; and Boston Common - More of Emerson from Specimen Days. Each author's sections contains a Chronology of his work. First Paperback Printing Soft Cover

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ALLEN, GAY WILSON (editor): WALT WHITMAN ABROAD - critical essays from Germany, France, Scandinavia, Russia, Italy, Spain and Latin America, Israel, Japan and India, Syracuse University Press 1955 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
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Contents: A). Germany. 1). Ferdinand Freiligrath: Walt Whitman. 2). Hans Reisiger: A child went forth. 3). Thomas Mann to Hans Reisifer (letter). 4). Hermann Pongs: Walt Whitman and Stefan George. B). France. 1). Valery Larbaud: Development of the poet. 2). Jean Catel: Whitman's symbolism. 3). Jean Catel: Rhythm and language in the first edition of 'Leaves of grass'. 4). Roger Asselineau: Whitman's fundamental aesthetics. C). Scandinavia. 1). Knut Hamson: The primitive poet, Walt Whitman. 2). Johannes V. Jensen: Walt Whitman. 3). Roland Fridholm: Pindar from Paumanok. 4). Kjell Krogvig: Approach to Whitman through Wergeland. D). Russia. 1). Stephen Stepanchev: Whitman in Russia. 2). Stephen Stepanchev: Whitman in other Slavic countries. 3). Anonymous: The poet of democracy: Walt Whitman. 4). D. Mirsky: Poet of American democracy. E). Italy. 1). Giovanni Papini: Whitman. 2). Cesare Pavese: Walt Whitman - The poetry of poetry writing. F). Spain and Latin America. 1). Jose Marti: The poet Walt Whitman. 2). Cebria Montoliu: Walt Whitman's phylosophy. 3). Miguel de Unamuno: Adamic song. 4). Gilberto Freyre: Camerado Whitman. G). Israel. 1). Shomon J. Kahn: Whitman's sense of evil: Criticisms. H). Japan. 1). Statement by the Honorable John M. Allisin, Ambassador of the United States to Japan. 2). A word about the Whitman exhibition. I). India. 1). V. K. Chari: Americanism reviewed. With bibliographies and index. X + 290 pag. 1st edition Dustjacket sl. worn Cloth with dustjacket 23,5cmx15,5cm; 1st edition

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WASKOW, HOWARD J: WHITMAN: Explorations in form, Chicago/London The university of Chicago press 1967
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Contents: I). Whitman's habit of mind. 1). Backgrounds: mechanism, organicism, and Whitman. 2). 'Bipolar unity' in idea and image. 3). 'Bipolar unity' in poetic work. II). Whitman at work. 4). Direction and non-direction: didacticism and imagism. 5). Direction: narrative - 'Out of the cradle endlessly rocking' - 'There was a child went forth'. 6). Indirection: monodrama - 'The sleepers' - 'Song of myself' - 'Song of the open road' - 'As I ebb'd with the ocean of life'. 7). Indirection: reader engagement - 'Crossing Brooklyn ferry' - 'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd'. With conclusion, notes, bibliography and index. 279 pag. Second edition Good copy Cloth bound 24cmx16cm; Second edition

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