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Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass
Matt Miller
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Description for Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass
Hardback. A study of how Whitman composed his early poems through the use of collage Num Pages: 320 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America’s most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman’s journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman—who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play—was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman’s discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as “Song of Myself” ... Read more
Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America’s most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman’s journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman—who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play—was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman’s discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as “Song of Myself” ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803225343
SKU
V9780803225343
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About Matt Miller
Matt Miller is an assistant professor of English at Yeshiva University. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Book History, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
Reviews for Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass
""This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his Leaves of Grass .""—D. D. Kummings, Choice |""Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman’s poetry as any to have appeared for some time.""—M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review