Description |
1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Prose
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SUBJECT |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast |
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Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt) fast |
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Death in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Criticism and interpretation
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Death in literature
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Gedichten.
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Literaire thema's.
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Dood.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2003010210 |
ISBN |
9780817381639 |
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0817381635 |
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