In this Book
- Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector’s item, this edition is now viewed as the poet’s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy.
The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitman’s poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic issues, nineteenth-century America, and even the complex typographical history of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The volume also includes a tribute from the renowned poet Galway Kinnell.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xvii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xx
- Part 1: Foregrounding the First Edition
- Part 2: Reading the First Edition
- 5. Whitman at Night: "The Sleepers" in 1855
- pp. 124-140
- Part 3: Contextualizing the First Edition
- Part 4: Aftereffects
- 12. Walt Whitman as an Eminent Victorian
- pp. 282-298
- Part 5: The Life behind the Book
- Part 6: A Poet Responds
- Part 7: The Critical Response
- Contributors
- pp. 457-462
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803208780
MARC Record
OCLC
182556277
Pages
496
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No