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Author Schmidgall, Gary

Title Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame : Selections from Horace Traubel's "Conservator, " 1890-1919
Published Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (479 pages)
Series Iowa Whitman series
Iowa Whitman series.
Contents Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; Tonic Emanation: Walt Whitman in the Conservator; 1. Horace Traubel's Editorial Style, Credos, and Worldview; 2. Memoirs of Walt, Leaves of Grass, and the Whitman Circle; 3. Topical Articles on Whitman; 4. Publisherial: Reviews and Notices of Whitman Editions; 5. The Whitman Wars: Rejecters, Defenders, Reception; 6. Sex Morality; 7. Fillers and Squibs: A Whitman and Traubel Potpourri; 8. The Whitman Centennial Issue, May 1919; Finalé; Appendix 1. Topical Articles on Whitman in the Conservator; Appendix 2. Libraries Holding the Conservator; Index
Summary It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who "succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality."That the balance finally tipped toward admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflagging
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
SUBJECT Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast
Subject Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Poets, American
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Folsom, Ed
LC no. 2005052891
ISBN 9781609380021
1609380029
1587296756
9781587296758