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Books on: whitman poem

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Pictures: An Unpublished Poem of Walt Whitman

Book by Emory Holloway, Walt Whitman, Bruce Rogers; The June House, 1927

Subjects:

Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...devoted to a single poem of the catalogue...the title page Whitman has instructed...edition that Whitman published his little poem, "My Picture-Gallery...rather unimaginative poem and the composition...Leaves of Grass ," Whitman worked these impressionistic...
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The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts

Book by Sam Abrams, Walt Whitman; Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993

Subjects:

Fiction, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...essential; it is the only poem in which Whitman reveals to us the profound...cited what he introduced as "Whitmans greatest poem." There followed the whole...most important poems. This poem together with Whitmans suppression of it constitute...
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Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda

Book by James Nolan; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Indian Aesthetics, Indians In Literature, Literature And Anthropology--America, Literature, Comparative--American And Chilean, Literature, Comparative--Chilean And American, Neruda, Pablo--1904-1973--Aesthetics, Oral Tradition--America, Poetics, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Aesthetics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A long overdue comparative study of the American voices in hemispheric poetry, this book brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an ...
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A long overdue comparative study of the American voices in hemispheric poetry, this book brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, 'Leaves of Grass' and 'Canto General'. The fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break through the partitions that separate the native, English and Spanish poetic responses to the American hemisphere.
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Walt Whitman Handbook

Book by Gay Wilson Allen; Packard, 1946

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt--1819-1892

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...March 5, contained Whitman poem "Sailing the Mississippi...are unanimous on Whitmans mystical experiences...Orleans theory is the poem, Once I Passd through...the manuscript the poem was addressed to...Holloway, "Walt Whitmans Love Affairs...
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Walt Whitman: Here and Now

Book by Joann P. Krieg; Greenwood Press, 1985

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Criticism And Interpretation--Congresses

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...gone write my life?" Walt Whitman asked in a poem of 1867, "When I Read...feels between himself and Whitmans poem. The reader may be only...doubles as a gay male love poem; the greatest example in Whitmans time -- and I believe it...

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Journal Articles on: whitman poem

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Ivor Gurney's Creative Reading of Walt Whitman: Thinking of Paumanok

Journal article by Stefan Hawlin; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 49, 2006

Subjects:

Gurney, Ivor--Criticism and interpretation, Gurney, Ivor--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Influence, Poets--Works, Whitman, Walt--Influence, Whitman, Walt--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...his long-term view. In "Walt Whitman," another late poem, he says that in Whitman "thought...faint praise." (31) In his late Whitman poem "As They Draw to a Close" (written...sense. It is a reworking of Whitmans poem, a translation, what Basil Bunting...
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American Renaissance Poetry and the Topos of Positionality: Genius Mundi and Genius Loci in Walt Whitman and William Gilmore Simms

Journal article by John D. Kerkering; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 43, 2005

Subjects:

American literary renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Simms, William Gilmore--Criticism and interpretation, Simms, William Gilmore--Works, Whitman, Walt--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...with the opening lines of a poem that Walt Whitman wrote a full century before...skilled--in the lines of a poem. III. Whitman and the Genius Mundi Simmss...another relevant example see Whitmans 1860 poem "I Hear America Singing...
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Wedded in Natural Matrimony: Cosmic Love in Wordsworth and Whitman

Journal article by D.J. Moores; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 56, 2004

Subjects:

Literature--Research, Whitman, Walt, Wordsworth, William

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...also argues that Whitman attempted to write...autobiographical poem with epic scope...and love" (230). Whitman thus offers his poems...humanity. In the third poem in Leaves of Grass...Whitman saw love as the source...as he claims in a poem by the same name...
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Audience Terminable and Interminable: Anne Gilchrist, Walt Whitman, and the Achievement of Disinhibited Reading

Journal article by Max Cavitch; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 43, 2005

Subjects:

A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Gilchrist, Anne Burrows--Criticism and interpretation, Gilchrist, Anne Burrows--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...readers could swallow Whitman whole, so he expurgated...omitting entirely any poem which could with...be published. (11) Whitman drew a canceling...paper to write his poem. Thus the artifact...to which the aged Whitman himself was an influential...particularly fine poem, the manuscript version...
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Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington

Journal article by Bruce E. Fleming; Parameters, Vol. 35, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...famous of which is certainly Whitmans long elegy on the death of Lincoln...Dooryard Bloomd." Its a great poem, and much read in college courses...It takes up ten pages. The poem seems the best example of two...several near-misses, well known to Whitman biographers, including one where...

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Magazine Articles on: whitman poem

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Marching with Walt Whitman

Magazine article by Gary Schmidgall; The Advocate, April 30, 2000

Subjects:

Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...contained the 45-poem "Calamus" sequence about Whitmans love for a man...Leaves of Grass, Whitman insisted, "has...essentially the greatest poem." I have no doubt...draft of Americas poem-in-progress needs more revision. Whitman was the champion...
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Jason Shinder, Editor: The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later

Magazine article by Nick Desai; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...collection of appreciations strives to uphold the importance of the poem that romanticized "angel-headed hipsters," battled Moloch...lasting effects were literary, if indirect: renewed interest in Whitman and inspiration for Robert Lowell.) Second, young people "trapped...
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Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History

Magazine article by Nicholas Hengen; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 28, Summer 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Dante in Love: the World's Greatest Poem and How it Made History (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...by Nicholas Hengen DANTE IN LOVE: The Worlds Greatest Poem and How It Made History. By Harriet Rubin. Simon amp; Schuster...literature, paving the way for vernacular authors from Chaucer to Whitman. But whats love got to do with it? Yes, Dante loved Beatrice...
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Defeating the Poem

Magazine article by Dennis Donoghue; New Criterion, Vol. 24, April 2006

Subjects:

Poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

Defeating the Poem. by Dennis Donoghue...mean, approximately, Whitman and after. "British...The first part ran from Whitmans Leaves of Grass (1855...an end with Ashberys poem because I felt that any...merit of reading a great poem, play, or novel consisted...
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Wobegon Poets: A Prairie Poem Companion

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 120, March 22, 2003

Subjects:

Good Poems (Book), Keillor, Garrison--Authorship, Poetry--Appreciation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...children--Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, Wordsworth, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. And, just as in gym class, some children...anthem. "When in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes" is a poem that any 16-year-old can understand in a heartbeat. Disgrace...

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Newspaper Articles on: whitman poem

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War's Emotions, Images Inspired Walt Whitman

Newspaper article by Ken Kryvoruka; The Washington Times, March 23, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...defeat at Bull Run, Whitman became less sanguine...penned a recruiting poem exhorting the North...without a memorial poem on Lincoln, Whitman hastily inserted...as time passed, Whitman brought together...immortal elegiac poem: When lilacs last...
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Journey into Souls of Two Excellent Men; Admirers from a Distance

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 14, 2004

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...work on Lincoln and Whitman, challenged Rankins...a kind of prose poem; it also reflected...March 1865. * * * Whitman was in Brooklyn the...a quickly written poem. Later in April...more was Piatts 1862 poem of adulation calling...really know whether Whitman influenced Lincolns...
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Washington as Seen through Whitman's Eyes; Poet's Letters during 10-Year Stay Serve as Guide

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 13, 2004

Subjects:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport). A work of steel, cast bronze, and copper balustrade, with excerpt from a poem by Walt Whitman. - Lisa Rauschart, with Kim Roberts +++++ WHEN YOU GO WHAT: The Washington Chorus: "A Sea Symphony" by Ralph...
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Nurse to Injured, Poet of Battlefield

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2005

Subjects:

Leaves of Grass (Poetry collection), Nurses, Poets, Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...whereas for many it increased a hatred of the defeated South, Whitman merely grieved. Soon after the assassination, he wrote "O Captain...his own. Also shortly after Lincolns death, he penned another poem, which would be included in "Sequel to Drum Taps" (1865-66...
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No Rhyme or Reason in Poetry Snafu

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 8, 2003

Subjects:

Bush, Laura, Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...be eagerly awaiting his Nobel Prize nomination for his 2002 poem accusing the Israelis of knowing in advance about the September...from claiming victory. "We closed the Bush poetry symposium on Whitman by politicizing literature," Mr. Hamill was quick to boast...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: whitman poem

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Whitman, Walt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Leaves of Grass In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense...poetry, the volume included the poem later known as "Song of Myself...considered an immoral book. In 1873 Whitman suffered a paralytic stroke...appeared in 1871, and his last long poem, "Passage to India," was published...
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Carpenter, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...religion. Among his works on social reform are Towards Democracy (1883 1902), a long unrhymed poem revealing the influence of his friend Walt Whitman; Englands Ideal (1887); Civilization: Its Cause and Cure (1889); and Loves Coming of Age...
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Ginsberg, Allen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...generation , Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack...the insights of Zen Buddhism , and the free verse of Walt Whitman were some of the sources for Ginsbergs quest to glorify everyday...
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Lyric

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song...Leopardi. American lyric poets of the 19th cent. include Emerson, Whitman, Longfellow, Lanier, and Emily Dickinson. Among lyric poets...
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Romanticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Longfellow all produced works in the romantic vein. Walt Whitman in particular expressed pride in his individual self and the...in combining music and literature, created the symphonic poem . Berlioz also made use of literature; much of his work is described...

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