American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet /
While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionis...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- James M. Whitfield: the poet of slaves
- Eliza R. Snow: poet of a new American religion
- John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird): the first white aboriginal
- Walt Whitman: an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.