To Walt Whitman, America

by Kenneth M. Price

Book Overview

Walt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807828491
• ISBN13: 9780807828496
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"