On Whitman |
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| Author:
| Williams, C. K. |
| Series title: | Writers on Writers Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-17610-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2017 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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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 appre
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 appre