LEADER 02630nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910785337203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0635-6 010 $a0-8078-9942-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000058483 035 $a(EBL)605944 035 $a(OCoLC)676698517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411636 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11250314 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411636 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10356656 035 $a(PQKB)11274254 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245892 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23554 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL605944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10425409 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC605944 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000058483 100 $a20100317d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican bards$b[electronic resource] $eWalt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet /$fby Edward Whitley 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1521-5 311 $a0-8078-3421-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aJames 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. 330 $aWalt 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 of 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aPoets, American$y19th century 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aPoets, American 676 $a811/.309 676 $aB 700 $aWhitley$b Edward Keyes$01520420 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785337203321 996 $aAmerican bards$93758983 997 $aUNINA