885 research outputs found
The Culinary Walt Whitman
No full textDescribes three items owned by the article\u27s author (a respected chef from Chicago) related to both Whitman and food: an engraving of what may be Whitman in a Civil War soup line, a previously known but lost letter from Whitman to his sister-in-law Louisa Orr Whitman, and a dinner menu from the Complimentary Dinner given in honor of Whitman\u27s 70th birthday ; includes an authentic recipe for the main entree at the dinner
History of My Whitman Studies
No full textProvides an account of the author\u27s long involvement in Whitman scholarship, including the writing of the Walt Whitman Handbook, The Solitary Singer, and the editing of Collected Writings of Walt Whitman
Whitman Then and Now: A Reminiscence
No full textProvides an account of the author\u27s involvement in Whitman scholarship, including an account of the academic climate in mid-twentieth century America and of the author\u27s involvement in the writing of Start with the Sun: Studies in the Whitman Tradition and the editing of Whitman\u27s Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
Walt Whitman\u27s Voice
No full textProvides a history of how Whitman\u27s voice was described by those who heard it, examining statements by W. D. O\u27Connor, Frank Harris, Thomas P. Harned, Richard M. Bucke, Horace Traubel, Hamlin Garland, John Johnston, and Harrsion S. Morris; describes the author\u27s own response to the recently rediscovered recording of what may be Whitman reading America
My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941-1991)
No full textProvides an account of the author\u27s involvement in Whitman scholarship, including his early recognition of Whitman\u27s homosexuality and the writing of L\u27 Evolution de Walt Whitman (The Evolution of Walt Whitman)
Michael Gold on Walt Whitman
No full textExplores Whitman\u27s influence on author, editor, and avowed Communist Michael Gold, examining Gold\u27s Jews Without Money (1930), his columns for the Daily Worker, and his editing for the New Masses to demonstrate how he used Whitman repeatedly to demonstrate that Communism with a capital C was the culmination of American culture
Isabelle Alfandary. E.E. Cummings. Eric Athenot. Walt Whitman.
No full textOn doit louer Marc Chénetier pour avoir suscité l’écriture de ces deux volumes consacrés à Cummings et à Whitman, et encouragé ainsi les chercheurs à consacrer leurs travaux à la poésie américaine. Isabelle Alfandary et Eric Athenot s’acquittent avec passion et finesse de la tâche qui leur a été confiée de présenter une synthèse dans un espace relativement restreint. Dans les deux cas, nous sommes devant des ensembles littéraires ambitieux, quoique très différents, et nés d’époques qui ne se ..
Sacred Panoramas: Walt Whitman and New York City Parks
No full textExamines Whitman\u27s journalism, focusing on his stories and editorials like A Lazy Day that present the author in a slacker pose ; argues that while Whitman\u27s agitations for public space change over time, he ultimately champions the notion of allocating higher grounds for public use, allowing all city-dwellers the opportunity to experience the all-encompassing power of the panoramic
"To Destroy the Teacher": Whitman and Martin Farquhar Tupper's 1851 Trip to America
No full textExplores the possible influence of British author Martin Farquhar Tupper on the development of Whitman's poetics, concluding that "while the differences between Whitman and Tupper clearly override the similarities, the similarities should not be ignored.
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