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Author Aspiz, Harold, 1921-

Title So long! : Walt Whitman's poetry of death / Harold Aspiz
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents "Triumphal drums for the dead": "song of myself," 1855 -- "Great is death": leaves of grass poems, 1855 -- "The progress of souls": leaves of grass, 1856 -- "So long!": leaves of grass, 1860 -- "Come sweet death!": the drum-taps poems, 1865-1866 -- "Sweet, peaceful, welcome death": leaves of grass, 1867-1892
Summary Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index
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Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Prose
SUBJECT Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast
Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt) fast
Subject Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Criticism and interpretation
Death in literature
Gedichten.
Literaire thema's.
Dood.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003010210
ISBN 9780817381639
0817381635
Other Titles Walt Whitman's poetry of death