Intimate with Walt : selections from Whitman's conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 /

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In March 1888 Horace Traubel, Whitman's loyal and hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the most famous resident of Camden. The result: more than 1,900,000 words that were eventually published between 1906 and 1996 in nine volumes. Titled With Walt Whitman i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919
Other Authors: Schmidgall, Gary, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
Series:Iowa Whitman series.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Interviews.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
1800-1899
Poets, American > 19th century > Interviews.
Poetry > Authorship.
Poètes américains > 19e siècle > Entretiens.
Poésie > Art d'écrire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Intellectual life.
Poets, American.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
United States.
Interviews.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Mickle Street Menage
  • Serendipity: Visitors and Vignettes
  • Walt on Walt
  • Walt on the Whitman Family
  • Walt on Images of Himself
  • Memories of Long Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan
  • Credos
  • Walt on the Literary Life
  • Before Leaves of Grass
  • After Leaves of Grass
  • Individual Poems and Sequences
  • Printing Leaves of Grass
  • Advice
  • Expurgation
  • Waning Powers
  • Avowal Letters
  • Walt and His Inner Circle
  • A Flaminger Soul: William Douglas O'Connor
  • Magnificent Potencies: Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Walt and His Boys
  • Walt's "Big Secret"
  • Views of America
  • Affection, Love, and Sex
  • The Woman Sex
  • Memories of Washington and the Secession War
  • Turned to a Generous Key: Abraham Lincoln
  • Race
  • Famous Authors
  • Walt and the Bard
  • Sweet Magnetic Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Oxygenated Men and Women: Walt's Pantheon
  • Scoundrel Time
  • Ecclesiastic
  • Music, Opera, and Marietta
  • Bottoms Up
  • Walt's Way with Words
  • Peeves
  • Pleasures
  • Walt on Various and Sundry
  • "A Frightful Gone-ness": The Physical Decline
  • "A Voice from Death": The Last Months
  • "The Last Mile Driven": The End
  • "The Touch of Peace": Mortuary
  • The Burial House at Harleigh Cemetery
  • The Last Hurrah: May 1919.

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