Walt Whitman in Fernando Pessoa

This volume explores the dynamics that connect two of the most celebrated poets and intriguing literary figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Walt Whitman and Fernando Pessoa. It focuses in particular on the role of the Portuguese Pessoa as reader of the North American writer, on the lessons he took from Leaves of Grass and, finally, on the reworking that he performed on Whitman's legacy. Whether characterized by a metaphor from chemistry (catalyst) or psychology (liberator), w...