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" The Cambridge introduction to Walt Whitman / "
M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
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BL
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631345
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Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
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The Cambridge introduction to Walt Whitman /\ M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge introductions to literature
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viii, 139 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0521854563 (hardback)
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: 9780521854566 (hardback)
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: 0521670942 (pbk.)
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: 9780521670944 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-132) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 1: Life -- Youth and literary apprenticeship (1819-1850) -- The emergence of the poet (1851-1860) -- The war and its aftermath (1861-1873) -- The period of reflection and decline (1873-1892) -- Chapter 2: Historical and cultural contexts -- Democracy -- The body -- The land -- The culture -- Chapter 3: Poetry before the Civil War -- 1855: "Song of myself" -- Other poems dating from the 1855 Leaves of Grass -- 1856: poems of sexuality and the body -- 1856: poems of the earth -- 1856: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -- 1860: Sea-Drift poems -- 1860: gendered clusters - "Children of Adam" and "Calamus" -- Chapter 4: Poetry after the Civil War -- Elegiac poems -- The emergence of the image -- Minor poetic modes -- Chapter 5: Prose works -- The 1855 preface -- Democratic Vistas -- Specimen Days -- Chapter 6: Critical reception -- The first fifty years, 1855-1905 -- 1905-1955 -- 1955-2005.
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Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.
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Poets, American-- 19th century, Biography, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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811/.3
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PS3231.K55 2007
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Walt Whitman
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