Examines the life of nineteenth-century American author Walt Whitman, providing an analysis of his writing and features a selection of critical essays regarding Whitman's work, a chronology, and a complete bibliography.
General Note
Updated ed. of same title published 1985, in series: Modern critical views.
Content Note
Whitman / D.H. Lawrence -- Policy made personal : Whitman's verse and prose-salient traits / Kenneth Burke -- Walt Whitman : Always going out and coming in / R.W.B. Lewis -- Whitman's image of voice: to the tally of my soul / Harold Bloom -- Native models / Kerry C. Larson -- A simple separate person / David Bromwich -- Reading / Mark Bauerlein -- Whitman's difficult availability / John Hollander -- Poetry and the mediation of value : Whitman on Lincoln / Helen Vendler -- The Whitman phrase / Angus Fletcher.