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Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 (Iowa Whitman Series)
Gary Schmidgall
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Description for Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 (Iowa Whitman Series)
Hardcover. Offers a selection from the trove of Whitman-related materials Traubel included in the 352 issues of the "Conservator". This book includes more than 150 topical essays on Whitman and memoirs, by many of his friends and literary cohorts that shed light on the poet, his work, and his critical reception. Series Editor(s): Folsom, Ed. Series: Iowa Whitman Series. Num Pages: 478 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 839.
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 labor ... Read more
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 labor ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Series
Iowa Whitman Series
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9780877459729
SKU
V9780877459729
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About Gary Schmidgall
Gary Schmidgall is a professor of English at Hunter College, the City University of New York, and the editor of Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 (IOWA 2001). His other Whitman books are Walt Whitman: A Gay Life and Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892. He has also published books on Shakespeare and on the relation ... Read more
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