On Whitman

by C.K. Williams

Book Overview

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it--to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691144729
• ISBN13: 9780691144726
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 7.0"