02454nam 2200517 a 450 991045408260332120200520144314.00-8173-8163-5(CKB)1000000000537484(EBL)438151(OCoLC)320324080(SSID)ssj0000247202(PQKBManifestationID)11216328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247202(PQKBWorkID)10195108(PQKB)11427224(MiAaPQ)EBC438151(Au-PeEL)EBL438151(CaPaEBR)ebr10237184(EXLCZ)99100000000053748420030502d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSo long![electronic resource] Walt Whitman's poetry of death /Harold AspizTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20041 online resource (309 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1377-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction: "Great Poems of Death"; 1. "Triumphal Drums for the Dead": "Song of Myself,"" 1855; 2. "Great Is Death": Leaves of Grass Poems, 1855; 3. "The Progress of Souls": Leaves of Grass, 1856; 4. "So Long!": Leaves of Grass, 1860; 5. "Come Sweet Death!": The Drum-Taps Poems, 1865-1866; 6. "Sweet, Peaceful, Welcome Death": Leaves of Grass, 1867-1892; Notes; Bibliography; IndexExplores Whitman's intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman's career as thinker, poet, and person. Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly "Song of Myself," and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life--the cascade of sounds, sights, and smells that erupt in his verse--Death in literatureElectronic books.Death in literature.811/.3Aspiz Harold1921-1040544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454082603321So long2463508UNINA