02969nam 2200601 a 450 991045154150332120200520144314.01-60938-002-91-58729-675-6(CKB)1000000000483597(EBL)843311(OCoLC)773567011(SSID)ssj0000129087(PQKBManifestationID)11138955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129087(PQKBWorkID)10071065(PQKB)10359256(MiAaPQ)EBC843311(OCoLC)219756009(MdBmJHUP)muse18364(Au-PeEL)EBL843311(CaPaEBR)ebr10579412(EXLCZ)99100000000048359720050729d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConserving Walt Whitman's fame[electronic resource] selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 /edited by Gary SchmidgallIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (479 p.)Iowa Whitman seriesIncludes index.0-87745-972-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; Tonic Emanation: Walt Whitman in the Conservator; 1. Horace Traubel's Editorial Style, Credos, and Worldview; 2. Memoirs of Walt, Leaves of Grass,and the Whitman Circle; 3. Topical Articles on Whitman; 4. Publisherial: Reviews and Notices of Whitman Editions; 5. The Whitman Wars: Rejecters, Defenders, Reception; 6. Sex Morality; 7. Fillers and Squibs: A Whitman and Traubel Potpourri; 8. The Whitman Centennial Issue,May 1919; Finalé; Appendix 1. Topical Articles on Whitman in the Conservator; Appendix 2. Libraries Holding the Conservator; IndexIt is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who "succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality."That the balance finally tipped toward admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflaggingIowa Whitman series.Poets, American19th centuryBiographyElectronic books.Poets, American811/.3BSchmidgall Gary1945-970338Traubel Horace1858-1919.200006MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451541503321Conserving Walt Whitman's fame2205507UNINA