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Autore: | Aspiz Harold <1921-> |
Titolo: | So long! [[electronic resource] ] : Walt Whitman's poetry of death / / Harold Aspiz |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina: | 811/.3 |
Soggetto topico: | Death in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910454082603321 |
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