The Evolution of Walt Whitman.

Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman...

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Main Author: Asselineau, Roger
Other Authors: Folsom, Ed
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1999.
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505 0 |a Foreword by Ed Folsom; Introduction; The Creation of a Personality; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; I. Youth -- The Unsuccessful Quest; II. The 1855 Edition -- Birth of a Poet; III. The 1856 Edition; IV. New Uncertainties; V. THe 1860 Edition; VI. The Wound Dresser; VII. Happy Bureaucrat and Tormented Poet; VIII. The Heroic Invalid (1873-1876); IX. New Victories (1876-1882); X. The Decline (1883-1890); XI. Last Months and Death (1891-1892); Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Indexes; The Creation of a Book; Foreword; Contents; Part One: The Main Themes of Leaves of Grass. 
505 8 |a I. Mysticism and the Poetry of the BodyII. The Implicit Metaphysics; III. The Ethics; IV. The Fundamental Aesthetics; V. Sex Life: "The Love that dare not speak its name."; VI. "These States" -- Egocentrism and Patriotism; VII. Democracy -- "Myself" and Man "En-masse"; VIII. Democracy and Racialism -- Slavery; IX. Industrial Civilization; Part Two: The Progress of His Art; X. Style -- From Mysticism to Art; XI. Language -- Innovations and Traditions; XII. Prosody -- Order within Disorder; Conclusion; Bibliography; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Indexes. 
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