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Walt Whitman, the centennial essays, edited by Ed Folsom ; drawings by Guido Villa

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Walt Whitman

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edited by Ed Folsom ; drawings by Guido Villa

the centennial essays

In 1992, the year of the hundredth anniversary of Walt Whitman's death, a major gathering of international scholars took place at the University of Iowa. Over 150 participants heard papers by 20 of the world's most eminent critics of Whitman. Three generations of scholars offered new essays that brilliantly tracked the course of past and present Whitman scholarship. So significant was this historic celebration of the great American poet that the opening session was covered by CBS "Sunday Morning," National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," the New York Times, and other newspapers across the countryMusical and theatrical performances, art exhibitions, slide shows, readings, songs, and even a recently discovered recording of Whitman's voice were presented during the three days of the conference. But the heart of the conference was this series of original essays by some of the most innovative scholars working in the field of American literature. There has never been a more important collection of Whitman criticism. In these essays, readers will find the most suggestive recent approaches to Whitman alongside the most reliable traditional approaches. Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays captures Whitman's energy and vitality, which have only increased in the century after his death

Introduction : "Generations hence" / Ed Folsom -- Whitman biography in 1992 / Gay Wilson Allen -- The Binns biography / Jerome Loving -- Whitman : bibliography as biography / Joel Myerson -- Whitman unperturbed : the Civil War and after / Vivian R. Pollak -- The European roots of Leaves of grass / Roger Asselineau -- "Tallying, vocalizing all" : discourse markers in Leaves of grass / C. Carroll Hollis -- Whitman's physical eloquence / M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Reconstructing language in Democratic vistas / James Perrin Warren -- The obfuscations of rhetoric : Whitman and the visionary experience / Arthur Golden -- The body politic in Democratic vistas / Harold Aspiz -- The politics of labor and the poet's work : a reading of "A song for occupations" / Alan TrachtenbergWhitman and the dreams of labor / M. Wynn Thomas -- Whitman and the homosexual republic / Betsy Erkkila -- Whitman and the politics of identity / Robert K. Martin -- Whitman's multitudinous poetic progeny : particular and puzzling instances / James E. Miller, Jr. -- The Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance / George B. Hutchinson -- Whitman, Dos Passos, and "Our storybook democracy" / Kenneth M. Price -- "Teach me your rhythm" : the poetics of German lyrical responses to Whitman / Walter Grünzweig -- Whitman criticism in the light of Indian poetics / V.K. Chari