Walt Whitman The Contemporary Reviews |
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| Editor:
| Price, Kenneth M. |
| Series title: | American Critical Archives Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-11259-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $67.95 |
Book Description:
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This volume, a significant contribution to the reception history of Leave of Grass, Specimen Days, and other works, reproduces the full range of the contemporary reviews of Whitman'a various books. Brash and iconoclastic, revered and reviled at various times Whitman attracted an astonishing array of commentary ranging from sympathy to hostility. Reviews by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and (writing anonymously) Whitman himself, and a host of other writers clarify much...
More DescriptionThis volume, a significant contribution to the reception history of Leave of Grass, Specimen Days, and other works, reproduces the full range of the contemporary reviews of Whitman'a various books. Brash and iconoclastic, revered and reviled at various times Whitman attracted an astonishing array of commentary ranging from sympathy to hostility. Reviews by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and (writing anonymously) Whitman himself, and a host of other writers clarify much about both the poet and nineteenth-century American culture.