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050 00 $aPS3231$b.S8 1968
100 1 $aSymonds, John Addington,$d1840-1893.
245 00 $aWalt Whitman;$ba study.$cLondon, J. C. Nimmo, 1893.
260 0 $aNew York,$bAMS Press$c[1968]
300 $axxxv, 160 p.$billus.$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aNotice of Walt Whitman's life : Born in 1819 on Long Island ; His ancestry ; Life in boyhood at Brooklyn ; Teaching school and journalism ; Learns the printing trade ; Youth and early manhood in New York ; Descriptions of his personal appearance and qualities ; Roamings through the southern and western states ; Speculates in building ; Forms the first conception of "Leaves of Grass" ; Experiments in style ; First edition of 1855 ; Its reception ; Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln ; Walt adheres to his original plan ; The secession war ; Hospital work ; Severe illness in 1864 ; Paralysis in 1873 ; "Drum Taps" and "Democratic Vistas" ; Whitman and Secretary Harlan ; Whitman in the Attorney-General's office ; His chronic bad health, owing to the stress of hospital-work, lays him up ; Poverty ; "Specimen Days" ; Their value for the understanding of his character ; Protracted invalidism at Camden, N.J. -- Growth of his fame as writer ; Devoted friends ; Death in 1892 --
505 0 $aStudy of Walt Whitman : I. Difficulty of dealing with Whitman's work by any purely critical method ; Controversies aroused by "Leaves of Grass" ; The man and his personality ; Leadership of a cause ; Originality and largeness of scale ; Impossibility of reducing his doctrine to a system ; The main points of his creed -- II. Religion ; God immanent in the universe ; All faith and dogmas are provisional, relative in value ; Analysis of the poem "Chanting the Square Deific" ; Unrestricted faith and imperturbable optimism ; In what way was Whitman a Christian? ; His religion corresponds to the principles of modern science ; The cosmic enthusiasm ; Its importance for the individual -- III. Personality or self ; The meaning of egotism for Whitman ; Intimate connection between man and nature ; Paramount importance of a sound and self-reliant personality ; All things exist for the individual ; Body and soul ; The ideal of athletic selfhood -- IV. Sex-love ; Amativeness and adhesiveness ; Love of women, love of comrades ; Whitman's treatment of the normal sexual emotions ; His relation to science ; The poet's touch on scientific truths ; Breadth of view ; Primitive conception of sexuality and marriage ; Misconceptions to which his doctrines have been exposed -- V. The love of comrades ; "Calamus" ; The ideal of a friendship, fervid, passionate, pure ; Novelty of this conception ; Liability to misconstruction ; Question whether a new type of chivalry be not involved in the doctrine of "Calamus" ; Political importance of comradeship ; Speculations on the ground-stuff of "Calamus" --
505 0 $aVI. Democracy ; The word En-Masse ; Equality of human beings ; Miracles are all around us in the common world ; Wherever and whoever ; Heroism in daily life no less than in ancient fable or religious myth ; Democracy under the aspect of a new creed ; Questions regarding democratic art ; Extension of the spheres of poetry and plastic beauty ; Middle-class prejudices and pettinesses ; The advent of the people ; Critique of culture ; America and Europe ; Whitman's firm belief in democracy ; The "Divine Average" ; His attitude toward the past -- VII. Whitman's start in literature ; Attempts to create a new style ; Analysis of the first preface to "Leaves of Grass" (1855) ; Qualities, intellectual and moral, demanded from the democratic bard -- VIII-IX. Summary of Whitman's description of the poet ; How far did he realise his own ideal? ; Weak points in his method ; His permanently substantial qualities ; Question whether his writings are to be called poetry ; Passages proving his high rank as a creative artist -- X. Return to the difficulty of criticising Whitman ; Allusive and metaphorical ways of presenting him ; The main thing is to make people read him ; Statement by the author of this stuidy of what Whitman did for himself.
600 10 $aWhitman, Walt,$d1819-1892$xBiography.
600 10 $aWhitman, Walt,$d1819-1892.
650 0 $aPoets, American$y19th century$vBiography.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSymonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.$tWalt Whitman.$dNew York, AMS Press [1968]$w(OCoLC)591214436
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