Walt Whitman: the contemporary reviews

Author:Kenneth M. Price

Summary:This volume offers a thorough presentation of the contemporaneous reviews of the major books by Walt Whitman published between 1855 and 1892. Recognised now as one of America's greatest poets, Whitman's work elicited extraordinary responses, some angry and short-sighted and others discriminating and discerning.

Print Book, English, 1996

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996

Series:

The American critical archives, 9

Physical Description:XXIV, 356 p. ill. 24 cm

ISBN:

9780521453875, 0521453879

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1014620592

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Contents:

Leaves of Grass (1855); Leaves of Grass (1856); A Child's Reminiscence (1859); Leaves of Grass (1860); Drum-Taps; Leaves of Grass (1867); Poems by Walt Whitman (1868), ed. William Michael Rossetti; Two Rivulets (1876); Leaves of Grass (1881–82); Specimen Days and Collect (1882–83); November Boughs (1888); Complete Poems and Prose (1888); Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888); Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).