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Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame : Selections from Horace Traubel's "Conservator, " 1890-1919.
It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Iowa Whitman series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who "succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality."That the balance finally tipped toward admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflagging. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (479 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609380021 1609380029 1587296756 9781587296758 |