Walt Whitman

by Milton Hindus (Editor)

Overview

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415159456
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/06/1997
Series:	The Critical Heritage Ser.
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Emerson's letter to Whitman; 2: The first notice; 3: Charles Eliot Norton's review; 4: Moncure Conway visits Whitman; 5: Norton and Lowell disagree; 6: Rufus W. Griswold on Whitman; 7: Whitman's anonymous self-reviews; 8: Edward Everett Hale on Whitman; 9: Extracts from an unsigned notice; 10: An English reaction; 11: An American echo; 12: ‘Impious and obscene'; 13: Bronson Alcott on Whitman; 14: Thoreau on Whitman; 15: ‘It is a lie to… review… one's own book'; 16: A favourable English reaction; 17: ‘His style is everywhere graphic'; 18: ‘Full of beauties and blemishes'; 19: Lincoln and Leaves of Grass 1857 (?); 20: ‘A wild Tupper of the West'; 21: Praise and blame; 22: ‘It is the healthiest book, morally'; 23: Three views of 1860; 24: ‘The primordial music of nature'; 25: More puzzling than Swedenborg; 26: ‘the Leaves … resemble the Hebrew Scriptures'; 27: ‘A curious warble ‘?; 28: Henry James on Whitman; 29: William Douglas O'Connor on Whitman; 30: Rossetti's London edition; 31: Review of the London edition; 32: Swinburne on Whitman; 33: Anne Gilchrist on Whitman; 34: Edward Dowden on Whitman; 35: ‘Whitman's style … is his greatest contribution'; 36: A belated appreciation; 37: Saintsbury on Whitman; 38: Peter Bayne on Whitman; 39: Lanier on Whitman; 40: Some views of the 1880s; 41: ‘Caviare to the multitude'; 42: ‘Taken in hand by a reputable publisher; 43: A writer of almost insane violence; 44: Gerard Manley Hopkins on Whitman; 45: Swinburne on Whitmania; 46: Knut Hamsun on Whitman; 47: Harriet Monroe on Whitman; 48: John Addington Symonds on Whitman; 49: T. W. Rolleston on Whitman; 50: William James on Whitman; 51: Max Nordau on Whitman; 52: William Dean Howells on Whitman; 53: John Burroughs on Whitman; 54: William Sloane Kennedy on Whitman; 55: Henry James on Whitman; 56: John Jay Chapman on Whitman; 57: Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Whitman; 58: Santayana on Whitman; 59: Basil de Selincourt on Whitman