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Walt Whitman - The Contemporary Reviews (Hardcover, New)
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Walt Whitman - The Contemporary Reviews (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Critical Archives
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Total price: R3,657
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This volume, a significant contribution to the reception history of
Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days and other works, reproduces the full
range of the contemporary reviews of Whitman's various books. Brash
and iconoclastic, revered and reviled at various times, Whitman -
because of his bold literary experiments and frank treatment of
sexuality - came in for an astonishing array of commentary ranging
from sympathy with his 'hearty wholesomeness' to hostility toward
poems that were a 'mass of stupid filth'. Reviews by Rufus
Griswold, Fanny Fern, John Burroughs, William Dean Howells, Henry
James, Hamlin Garland, Oscar Wilde and (writing anonymously)
Whitman himself, together with a host of lesser-known writers
clarify much about both the poet and nineteenth-century American
culture and its tastes and preoccupations, its myopia and acuity.
These reviewers first framed the issues for critical debate and
shaped Whitman's long-term reputation.
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