The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

by M. Jimmie Killingsworth

Book Overview

Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521670942
• ISBN13: 9780521670944
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.9"