Baseball & Softball, American & Canadian Literature, Poetry - Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Literary Theory, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Photography - History, Criticism, & Collections, Native North American People
Walt Whitman's native representations
Ed Folsom
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Overview
Walt Whitman looked to many different areas of American culture to develop a distinctively American poetry. This book investigates four of the areas he found most fertile for his own poetic development: the evolution of American dictionaries, the growth of the national sport of baseball, the decimation of American Indians, and the development of American photography. From each of these cultural activities, Whitman absorbed key aesthetic lessons that helped him compose his poetry.
Book Details
Published
May 28, 1997
Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1997, c1994.
Pages
215
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521585729