LEADER 02454nam 2200517 a 450 001 9910454082603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8163-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537484 035 $a(EBL)438151 035 $a(OCoLC)320324080 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247202 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216328 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247202 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10195108 035 $a(PQKB)11427224 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438151 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438151 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237184 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537484 100 $a20030502d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSo long!$b[electronic resource] $eWalt Whitman's poetry of death /$fHarold Aspiz 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1377-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aExplores 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-- 606 $aDeath in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 676 $a811/.3 700 $aAspiz$b Harold$f1921-$01040544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454082603321 996 $aSo long$92463508 997 $aUNINA