Walt Whitman--the measure of his song

Walt Whitman--the measure of his song / edited by Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, & Dan Campion ; introduction by Ed Folsom ; contributors Ralph Waldo Emerson [and ninety four others].

A monumental gathering of writings by over 60 authors (from Emerson to Rudolfo Anaya) that traces Whitman's continuing influence on world literature. Revised second edition.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perlman, Jim, 1951- (Editor), Folsom, Ed, 1947- (Editor, Author of introduction, etc.), Campion, Dan, 1949- (Editor), Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Duluth, Minnesota : Holy Cow! Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Influence.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
American poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Table of Illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to Corrected Second Edition; ""Talking Back to Walt Whitman: An Introduction"", Ed Folsom; 1855-1905; Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Letter to Whitman (1855); Henry David Thoreau, A Letter to Harrison Blake (1956); Matthew Arnold, From a Letter to W.D. O'Connor (1866); Algernon Charles Swinburne, ""To Walt Whitman in America"" (Poem, 1871); Joaquin Miller, ""To Walt Whitman"" (Poem 1877); Ernest Rhys, ""To Walt Whitman from Some Younger English Friends"" (Poem, 1889).
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, From a Letter to Robert Bridges (1882)Edwin Arlington Robinson, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1897); Louis Sullivan, A Letter to Walt Whitman (1887(; Ruben Dario ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1890), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaen; Hamlin Garland ""A Tribute of Grasses"" (Poem, 1893); Edmund Goose, From ""Walt Whitman"" (Essay, 1893); Robert Buchanan, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem 1892); Morris Rosenfeld, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1890s); Willa Cather, ""Whitman"" (Essay, 1896); George Cabot Lodge, ""To W.W."" (Poem, 1902); 1905-1955; Ezra Pound, ""A Pact"" (Poem, 1913).
  • Ezra Pound, ""What I Feel About Walt Whitman"" (Essay, 1909)Fernando Pessoa, ""Salutations to Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1915) trans. Edwin Honig; Edgar Lee Masters, ""Petit, the Poet"" (Poem 1915); Emanuel Carnevali, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1919); Witter Bynner ""Whitman"" (Poem, 1920); D.H. Lawrence, ""Whitman"" (Essay, 1921); D.H. Lawrence, ""Retort to Whitman"" (Pome, Late 1920s); Carl Sndburg, ""[Bouquets and Brickbats]"" (Essay, 1921); Vachel Lindsay, ""Walt Whitman"" (Essay, 1923); Hart Crane, ""Cape Hatteras"" (Poem, 1929); T.S. Eliot, From ""Whitman and Tennyson"" (Essay, 1926).
  • Sherwood Anderson, ""Walt Whitman"" (Essay, 1933)Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1929) trans. Didier Tisdel Jaen; Federico Garcia Lorca, ""Ode to Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1929), trans. Betty Jean Craige; Zona Gale, ""Walte Whitman"" (Poem, late 1920s); Edwin Markham, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem 1931); Michael Golld, ""Ode to Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1935); Stephen Vincent Benet, ""Ode to Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1935); Wallace Stevens, ""Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery"" Part 1 (Poem, 1936); Langston Hughes, ""The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman"" (Essay, 1946).
  • Langston Hughes, ""Old Walt"" (Poem, 1954)Kenneth Patchen, ""The Orange Bears"" (Poem, 1949); Muriel Rukeyser, ""Whitman and the Problem of Good"" (Essay, 1949); Pedro Mir, ""Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves"" Parts 9, 15 (Poem, 1952) trans. Didier Tisdel Jaen; Henry Miller, ""Walt Whitman"" (Essay, published 1957); William Carlos Williams, ""The American Idiom"" (Essay, published 1961); 1955-1980; Allen Ginsberg, ""A Supermarket in California"" (Poem, 1955); Jack Kerouac, ""168th Chorus"" (Poem, 1959); Jack Spicer, ""Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce"" (Poem, late 1950s).

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