Whitman Dickinson

Author : Éric Athenot,Cristanne Miller
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609385316

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Whitman & Dickinson by Éric Athenot,Cristanne Miller Pdf

Whitman & Dickinson is the first collection to bring together original essays by European and North American scholars directly linking the poetry and ideas of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. The essays present intersections between these great figures across several fields of study, rehearsing well-established topics from new perspectives, opening entirely new areas of investigation, and providing new information about Whitman’s and Dickinson’s lives, work, and reception. Essays included in this book cover the topics of mentoring influence on each poet, religion, the Civil War, phenomenology, the environment, humor, poetic structures of language, and Whitman’s and Dickinson’s twentieth- and twenty-first–century reception—including prolonged engagement with Adrienne Rich’s response to this “strange uncoupled couple” of poets who stand at the beginning of an American national poetic. Contributors Include: Marina Camboni Andrew Dorkin Vincent Dussol Betsy Erkkilä Ed Folsom Christine Gerhardt Jay Grossman Jennifer Leader Marianne Noble Cécile Roudeau Shira Wolosky

Author : Robert A. Bain
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809317214

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Whitman's & Dickinson's Contemporaries by Robert A. Bain Pdf

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were not the poetic stars of their day; only a few friends knew that Dickinson wrote, and Whitman s following was minuscule, if influential. But the contemporaries who eclipsed these major poets now have largely disappeared from our literary landscape. In this distinctive anthology, Robert Bain gathers together thirteen other scholars to re-present the poetry of these former luminaries, allowing readers to rediscover them, reconstruct the poetic contexts of their age, and better understand why Whitman and Dickinson now overshadow other poets of their time. Arranged chronologically according to the birth dates of the poets, this anthology introduces each poet s work, providing biographical information and discussing the major forms and themes of the work. Each introduction places the poet in a literary and historical context with Whitman and Dickinson and provides a bibliography of secondary sources. This remarkable book recovers a part of our literary heritage that has been lost. "

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674044623

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Poets Thinking by Helen Vendler Pdf

Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.

Author : Christine Gerhardt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609382711

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A Place for Humility by Christine Gerhardt Pdf

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson’s and Whitman’s poems about the natural world neither preclude nor erase nature’s relevance as an actual living environment. In their respective poetic projects, the earth matters both figuratively, as a realm of the imagination, and also as the physical ground that is profoundly affected by human action. This double perspective, and the ways in which it intersects with their formal innovations, points beyond their traditional status as curiously disparate icons of American nature poetry. That both of them not only approach nature as an important subject in its own right, but also address human-nature relationships in ethical terms, invests their work with important environmental overtones. Dickinson and Whitman developed their environmentally suggestive poetics at roughly the same historical moment, at a time when a major shift was occurring in American culture’s view and understanding of the natural world. Just as they were achieving poetic maturity, the dominant view of wilderness was beginning to shift from obstacle or exploitable resource to an endangered treasure in need of conservation and preservation. A Place for Humility examines Dickinson’s and Whitman’s poetry in conjunction with this important change in American environmental perception, exploring the links between their poetic projects within the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Christine Gerhardt argues that each author's poetry participates in this shift in different but related ways, and that their involvement with their culture’s growing environmental sensibilities constitutes an important connection between their disparate poetic projects. There may be few direct links between Dickinson’s “letter to the World” and Whitman’s “language experiment,” but via a web of environmentally-oriented discourses, their poetry engages in a cultural conversation about the natural world and the possibilities and limitations of writing about it—a conversation in which their thematic and formal choices meet on a surprising number of levels.

Author : Agnieszka Salska
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512806144

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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson by Agnieszka Salska Pdf

Agnieszka Salska 's illuminating study of the patterns of consciousness in the poetry of two major nineteenth-century American poets borrows from Northrop Frye's phrase "the structure of the poet's imagination." Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, the first extensive book comparing the two poets, builds on the shorter works by Karl Keller and Albert Gelpi and is further augmented by Salska's "outside" viewpoint from her native Poland. Her extensive research in the United States in 1984 ensures the timeliness of the work and makes the study truly valuable. That Dickinson and Whitman shared a common ground of aspiration for existential wholeness is made clearer to twentieth-century readers by Salska's argument, which traces the poets' heritage from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although both poets begin with the same vision—that the artist's mind is solely responsible for the organization of the universe—their realizations of that image diverge radically. Salska's keen judicious observations add much to our understanding of the poets both as individuals and as contemporaries. Her book will be of great interest to students of Whitman and Dickinson, poetry and American literature. The clarity of style makes the book invaluable to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in general.

Author : William C. Spengemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076002912355

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Three American Poets by William C. Spengemann Pdf

Describes the different sorts of poetry Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville wrote, their comparable reasons for writing, and the posthumous critical effects of their having done so.

Author : Walt Whitman,Emily Dickinson,Robert Frost
Publisher : State Street Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0681748095

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Three Great American Poets: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost by Walt Whitman,Emily Dickinson,Robert Frost Pdf

Author : Betsy Erkkila
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609387228

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The Whitman Revolution by Betsy Erkkila Pdf

The Whitman Revolution brings together a rich collection of Betsy Erkkila’s phenomenally influential essays that have been published over the years, along with two powerful new essays. Erkkila offers a moving account of the inseparable mix of the spiritual-sexual-political in Whitman and the absolute centrality of male-male connection to his work and thinking. Her work has been at the forefront of scholarship positing that Whitman’s songs are songs not only of workers and occupations but of sex and the body, homoeroticism, and liberation. What is more, Erkkila’s writing demonstrates that this sexuality and communal impulse is central to Whitman’s revolutionary poetry and his conception of democracy itself—an insight that was all but suppressed during the mid-twentieth century emergence of American literature as a field of study. Highlights of this collection include Erkkila’s essays on pairings such as Marx and Whitman, Dickinson and Whitman, and Melville and Whitman. Across the volume, she demonstrates an international vision that highlights the place of Leaves of Grass within a global struggle for democracy. The Whitman Revolution is evidence of Erkkila’s remarkable ability to lead critical discussions, and marks an exciting event in Whitman studies.

Author : David Haven Blake
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300134810

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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity by David Haven Blake Pdf

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346915092

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The Beauty of Death in Whitman’s and Dickinson’s Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses these aspects of “beauty” in death within three poems by each author that are commonly associated with the topic; those are "Song of myself", "To Think of Time" and "As at thy Portals also Death" by Walt Whitman, as well as "I heard a fly buzz – when I died", "Because I could not stop for Death" and "I haven’t told my garden yet" by Emily Dickinson. This analysis then allows for a deeper insight into how these two writers make death beautiful in the conclusion. Death is a topic that is discussed widely in all of poetry. Two very popular poets of 19th century America whose works often centered around the issue are Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Though most of Dickinson’s poetry and large parts of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass deal with this common theme, their poetry is quite different in their writing styles, length, etc. However, I would argue that both Whitman and Dickinson share a positive view on death, that is among other things depicted by the aesthetic language they use to describe the end of life as well as their belief in immortality or some sort of an afterlife, which is commonly associated with a “beautiful” experience when someone passes on.

Author : Joel Porte (ed),Saundra Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521499461

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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson by Joel Porte (ed),Saundra Morris Pdf

A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Author : Cristanne Miller,Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192570697

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The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson by Cristanne Miller,Karen Sánchez-Eppler Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes potential agendas for future work in the field of Dickinson studies. This is the first collection on Dickinson to foreground the material and social culture of her time while opening new windows to interpretive possibility in ours. The volume strives to balance Dickinson's own center of gravity in the material culture and historical context of nineteenth-century Amherst with the significance of important critical conversations of our present, thus understanding her poetry with the broadest "Latitude of Home"—as she puts it in her poem "Forever-is composed of Nows." Debates about the lyric, about Dickinson's manuscripts and practices of composition, about the viability of translation across language, media, and culture, and about the politics of class, gender, place, and race circulate through this volume. These debates matter to our moment but also to our understanding of hers. Although rooted in the evolving history of Dickinson criticism, the chapters foreground truly new original research and a wide range of innovative critical methodologies, including artistic responses to her poetry by musicians, visual artists, and other poets. The suppleness and daring of Dickinson's thought and uses of language remain open to new possibilities and meanings, even while they are grounded in contexts from over 150 years ago, and this collection expresses and celebrates the breadth of her accomplishments and relevance.

Author : Martha Ackmann
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393609318

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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781434450654

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The Americanness of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

A study on problems in American civilization, prepared by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115498

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Walt Whitman by Harold Bloom Pdf

Unique combination of biography and criticism of literary master Walt Whitman.