02630nam 2200601Ia 450 991078533720332120200520144314.01-4696-0635-60-8078-9942-9(CKB)2670000000058483(EBL)605944(OCoLC)676698517(SSID)ssj0000411636(PQKBManifestationID)11250314(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411636(PQKBWorkID)10356656(PQKB)11274254(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245892(MdBmJHUP)muse23554(Au-PeEL)EBL605944(CaPaEBR)ebr10425409(CaONFJC)MIL930910(MiAaPQ)EBC605944(EXLCZ)99267000000005848320100317d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican bards[electronic resource] Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet /by Edward WhitleyChapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20101 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1521-5 0-8078-3421-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.James M. Whitfield: the poet of slaves -- Eliza R. Snow: poet of a new American religion -- John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird): the first white aboriginal -- Walt Whitman: an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three ofNational characteristics, American, in literaturePoets, American19th centuryNational characteristics, American, in literature.Poets, American811/.309BWhitley Edward Keyes1520420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785337203321American bards3758983UNINA