So long! [[electronic resource] ] : Walt Whitman's poetry of death / / Harold Aspiz
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Aspiz Harold <1921->
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| Titolo: |
So long! [[electronic resource] ] : Walt Whitman's poetry of death / / Harold Aspiz
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Death in literature |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Explores 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-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | So long |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8163-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823661103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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