[PDF] A Readers Guide To Walt Whitman eBook

Author : Gay Wilson Allen
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815604884

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Author of the biography of Whitman and several other books about the poet, general coeditor of The Collected Writings, and for 25 years the leading scholar of Leaves of Grass, Allen has now produced a critical guide for an intelligent reader's analysis and evaluation of current interpretations and approaches to Whitman's poetry. Its five sections are concerned with: a) the Whitman man-or-beast myth; 2) the 'long foreground' to the Leaves; 3) the nine editions, 1855-1892, of Whitman's book...; 4) the central themes or subject matter that give it unity, and the views of critics...; and 5) its form and structure as seen in a dozen individual lyrics. The result is a useful, valuable, and even remarkable capstone to a long career devoted to the study of 'A Bible for Democracy' (Whitman's phrase for Leaves of Grass).

Author : Ezra Greenspan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982516X

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The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature and ambiguity: Whitman and photography, Whitman and feminist scholarship, Whitman and modernism, Whitman and the poetics of address, Whitman and the poetics of present participles, Whitman and Borges, Whitman and Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Civil War, Whitman and the politics of his era, and Whitman and the changing nature of his style in his later years. Addressed to an audience of students and general readers and written in a nontechnical prose designed to promote accessibility to the study of Whitman, this volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410321142

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A Study Guide for Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691176108

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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.

Author : Ed Folsom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405144688

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This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together thewriter’s life with an examination of his works. · An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. · Weaves together the writer’s life with anexamination of his works. · Focuses especially on Whitman’s evolvingmasterpiece Leaves of Grass. · Examines the material conditions and products ofWhitman’s “scripted life”, including his originalmanuscripts. · Investigates Whitman’s “life in print”– his belief that he could literally embody himself in hisbooks. · Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman’swork at www.whitmanarchive.org

Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1645425339

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, a novel of poems that has become a classic and inspired much of American history and popular culture. As a poetry collection of the late 1800s, Whitman explores new ideals concerning the body, spirituality, and nationalism. Moreover, Leaves of Grass has been deemed one of the most important collections of poems in America. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Walt Whitman’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Historical Guides to American Authors
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195120820

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This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts & the idea of democracy.

Author : Nick Selby
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1403933162

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This guide begins with reviews and discussions from the 1850's, considered alongside Whitman's thoughts. Moving on to examine ways in which his poetry has been accepted into the American canon, it then looks at new critical and formalist readings.