Whitman and the Irish

by Joann P. Krieg

Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first edition of Leaves of Grass was published, the Irish made up one of the largest immigrant populations in New York City and, as such, maintained a cultural identity of their own. All of this "Irishness"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877457301
• ISBN13: 9780877457305
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.3"