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Thurin, Erik Ingvar. Whitman Between Impressionism and Expressionism: Language of the Body, Language of the Soul [review]
Redrawing Whitman's Circle
Explores Whitman's reception among ardent followers (including George Fox, Father Taylor and Elias Hicks) in the light of Whitman's extra-literary, mystical or neo-religious impact, emphasizing the disparate, essentially incompatible perspectives of "the detached critic" as opposed to the "attached devotee"; compares Whitman's reception to that of "poet-masters" in Eastern cultural traditions
Whitman on Robert Burns: An Early Essay Recovered
Introduces and presents a previously lost 1875 essay by Whitman on the Scottish poet Robert Burns
Four Letters about Whitman in the Angeli-Dennis Papers
Introduces and presents four letters from the Angeli-Dennis Papers, containing the correspondence of the Rossetti family; the letters are written to Rossetti--two from Joseph B. Marvin and two from Charles Rowley--and describe their authors' visits to Whitman and express interests about his welfare
Grace Ellery Channing and the Whitman Calendar
Describes the relations between Grace Ellery Channing, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Douglas O'Conner, and Walt Whitman, focusing especially upon the never-realized proposal to make a calendar using excerpts from Leaves of Grass
Representing the Kosmos: The "Lyric Turn" in Whitman
Explores "the changing status of the major modes" of literature--here narrative and lyric--in the context of Whitman's oeuvre, focusing especially on "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" and defending the lyric against contemporary, pro-narrative arguments that see lyric modes as solipsistic; argues that "lyric reminds us where freedom may be found and why it matters.
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 12, no. 3
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 12, no. 3