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Containing Multitudes - Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition (Hardcover)
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Containing Multitudes - Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition (Hardcover)
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This study explores Walt Whitman's contradictory response to and
embrace of several great prior British poets: Shakespeare, Milton,
Burns, Blake, and Wordsworth (with shorter essays on Scott,
Carlyle, Tennyson, Wilde, and Swinburne). Through reference to his
entire oeuvre, his published literary criticism, and his private
conversations, letters and manuscripts, it seeks to understand the
extent to which Whitman experienced the anxiety of influence as he
sought to establish himself as America's poet-prophet or bard (and
the extent to which he sought to conceal such influence). An
attempt is also made to lay out the often profound aesthetic,
cultural, political, and philosophical affinities Whitman shared
with these predecessors. It also focuses on all of Whitman's extant
comments on these iconic authors. Because Whitman was a deeply
autobiographical writer, attention is also paid to how his comments
on other poets reflect on his image of himself and on the ways he
shaped his public image. Attention is also given to how Whitman's
attitudes to his British fore-runners changed over the nearly fifty
years of his active career.
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