U.S. & Canadian Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, Politics & Literature, Society & Culture in Literature, Democracies & Republics - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century American Literature - Literary Criticism
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Consequently, even though the original composition of almost all the lyrics here examined falls between 1855 and 1865, I have chosen the final edition as my primary text in order to emphasize the basic continuity of Whitman's ambitions and the tensions that accompany them.Editorials
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Larson (English, U. of Michigan) shows that Whitman's poetry was vitally engaged both before and during the Civil War in the problems of preserving social continuity. Whitman conceived his poems as vehicles for social integration, as a dramatization of the joining of the many and the one, speaker and listener, universal and particular. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 1, 1988
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Pages
294
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780226469089