In this Book
- On Whitman
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Writers on Writers
summary
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman
In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
Table of Contents
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- Beginnings
- pp. 9-14
- The Man Before the Poems
- pp. 23-27
- The Notebooks
- pp. 36-40
- Emerson and the Greatest Poet
- pp. 40-47
- The Modern, One: Baudelaire
- pp. 74-79
- Hugo and Longfellow
- pp. 80-83
- The Modern, Two: Eliot and Pound
- pp. 83-87
- Lorca, Ginsberg, and “The Faggots”
- pp. 119-129
- Imagination
- pp. 149-153
- Mortality Again
- pp. 163-171
- The Sad Captain
- pp. 171-172
- Life After
- pp. 181-184
- What He Teaches Us
- pp. 184-187
Additional Information
ISBN
9781400834334
Related ISBN(s)
9780691144726, 9780691176109
MARC Record
OCLC
650307478
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No