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- Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Iowa Whitman Series
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It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who “succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality.”That the balance finally tipped toward admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflagging labor of Horace Traubel, famous for his nine volumes of Whitman conversations but less well known for his provocative monthly journal of socialist politics and avant-garde culture, the Conservator.Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame offers a generous selection from the enormous trove of Whitman-related materials that Traubel included in the 352 issues of the Conservator. Among the revelatory, perceptive, and often entertaining items presented here are the most illuminating of the Conservator's more than 150 topical essays on Whitman and memoirs by many of his friends and literary cohorts that shed new light on the poet, his work, and his critical reception. Also important is the richer understanding these pages afford of Horace Traubel's own sophisticated, deeply humane, and feisty views of America.
Table of Contents
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- Note on the Text
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Tonic Emanation: Walt Whitman in the Conservator
- pp. xvii-lviii
- 3. Topical Articles on Whitman
- pp. 105-192
- 6. Sex Morality
- pp. 321-346
- 8. The Whitman Centennial Issue,May 1919
- pp. 380-402
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609380021
Related ISBN(s)
9780877459729
MARC Record
OCLC
219756009
Pages
478
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006