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Walt Whitman and the earth : a study in ecopoetics.
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ISBN: 1587295164 9781587295164 1587294516 9780877459033 0877459037 9781587294518 Year: 2004 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa press

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How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman's poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman's language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman's language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman's poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experien

The Cambridge introduction to Walt Whitman
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ISBN: 0521670942 9780521670944 0521854563 9780521854566 9780511610981 9780511275296 0511275293 0511271417 9780511271410 0511273037 9780511273032 0511274599 9780511274596 051161098X 1107165830 9781107165830 1280815515 9781280815515 0511568460 9780511568466 0511273827 9780511273827 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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 to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.

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