03643nam 2200637Ia 450 991078017640332120230607213630.01-58729-338-2(CKB)111056486862722(EBL)837046(OCoLC)50321153(SSID)ssj0000182175(PQKBManifestationID)11181409(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182175(PQKBWorkID)10187566(PQKB)11278198(MiAaPQ)EBC837046(MdBmJHUP)muse2959(Au-PeEL)EBL837046(CaPaEBR)ebr10354629(EXLCZ)9911105648686272220010110d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntimate with Walt[electronic resource] selections from Whitman's conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 /edited by Gary SchmidgallIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20011 online resource (353 p.)The Iowa Whitman seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-767-0 0-87745-766-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction; The Mickle Street Ménage; Serendipity: Visitors and Vignettes; Walt on Walt; Walt on the Whitman Family; Walt on Images of Himself; Memories of Long Island, Brooklyn,and Manhattan; Credos; Walt on the Literary Life; Before ""Leaves of Grass""; About ""Leaves of Grass""; Individual Poems and Sequences; Printing ""Leaves of Grass""; ""Leaves of Grass"" and the Critics; Advice; Expurgation; Waning Powers; Avowal Letters; Walt and His Inner Circle; A Flaminger Soul: William Douglas O'Connor; Magnificent Potencies: Robert Green Ingersoll; Walt and His Boys; Walt's "Big Secret"Views of AmericaAffection, Love, and Sex; The Woman Sex; Memories of Washington and the Secession War; Turned to a Generous Key: Abraham Lincoln; Race; Famous Authors; Walt and the Bard; Sweet Magnetic Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Oxygenated Men and Women: Walt's Pantheon; Scoundrel Time; Ecclesiastic; Music, Opera, and Marietta; Bottoms Up; Walt's Way with Words; Peeves; Pleasures; Walt on Various and Sundry; "A Frightful Gone-ness" -The Physical Decline; "A Voice from Death" -The Last Months; "The Last Mile Driven" -The End; "The Touch of Peace" -Mortuary; The Burial House at Harleigh CemeteryThe Last Hurrah: May 1919Citations; Bibliographical Note; IndexIn March 1888 Horace Traubel, Whitman's loyal and hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the most famous resident of Camden. The result: more than 1,900,000 words that were eventually published between 1906 and 1996 in nine volumes. Titled With Walt Whitman in Camden, these volumes contain much that is mundane and repetitive, but they also include many passages crucial for a full and humane understanding of America's first great national poet.Iowa Whitman series.Poets, American19th centuryInterviewsPoetryAuthorshipUnited StatesIntellectual life19th centuryPoets, AmericanPoetryAuthorship.811.3811/.3Traubel Horace1858-1919.200006Schmidgall Gary1945-1243162MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780176403321Intimate with Walt3858543UNINA