Whitman the Political Poet

by Betsy Erkkila

Book Overview

Recent critical studies have emphasized the formal, mystical, and psychological dimensions of Walt Whitman's art, dwelling mainly upon his Emersonian and Transcendental sources. This study is the first book to undertake a detailed analysis of Whitman's entire work in relation to the political struggles of the 19th century. Erkkila repairs the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political, the poet and history, that has in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195054385
• ISBN13: 9780195054385
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.5"