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Whitman, Walt --- Criticism and interpretation

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There has never been an edition of the selected letters of Walt Whitman, a remarkable fact considering how accustomed we are to becoming acquainted with major writers through their letters. Now Edwin Haviland Miller, editor of the six-volume collected writings of Whitman, has used his intimate knowledge of the ""good gray poet's"" correspondence to produce this revealing selection of 250 letters, introduced and annotated concisely and evocatively. Whitman in these letters is simple, direct, colloquial, adding a counterpoint to his artistic voice and persona as a poet.

Whitman, Walt --- Correspondence --- Poets [American ] --- 19th century --- Poets, American --- Whitman, Walt, --- Ouïtman, Ouōlt, --- Uitman, Uolʹt, --- Uitmen, Uot, --- Uitmen, Uolt, --- Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, --- Vālṭ Viṭman̲, --- Witʻŭmŏn, --- Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, --- Vālṭviṭman̲, --- Waltvitmen, --- Whitman, Walter, --- Huiteman, --- Veeitman, --- Уитмен, Уолт, --- ויטמן, וולט, --- װיטמאן, װאלט, --- ويتمن، والت، --- Vitmen, Volt, --- Uitman, Uollt, --- Huiteman, Huate, --- 華特·惠特曼,

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John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. At the outset, McWilliams considers the many problems - cultural, political and literary' - of adapting Enlightenment views of republican progress to a genre that had traditionally celebrated the greatness of warriors. After a survey of the many epic poems written during and after the American Revolution, McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into the new, open genres of prose history (Irving, Prescott and Parkman), fictional romance (Cooper and Melville) and free verse (Whitman). Believing that reviews are an important and slighted agent of literary change, McWilliams has written his book in the form of chronological literary history. His book, however, is no march of dates within tired categories. The American Epic suggests that imaginative writers of the Romantic era were in fact far less proscriptive about the boundaries of literary genre than many a twentieth-century writer and scholar.

Poetry --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Epic literature [American ] --- History and criticism --- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 --- 1783-1850 --- Barlow, Joel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Dwight, Timothy --- Melville, Herman --- Prescott, William Hickling --- Simms, William Gilmore --- Trumbull, John --- Whitman, Walt --- Irving, Washington --- Parkman, Francis --- Paulding, James Kirke --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Epic literature, American --- American epic literature --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Intellectual life