American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitley, Edward Keyes
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Appreciation > United States.
Whitfield, James Monroe, > 1822-1871.
Snow, Eliza R. > (Eliza Roxey), > 1804-1887.
Ridge, John Rollin, > 1827-1867.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Influence.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Appreciation.
Ridge, John Rollin, > 1827-1867
Snow, Eliza R. > (Eliza Roxey), > 1804-1887
Whitfield, James Monroe, > 1822-1871
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
Whitman, Walt > 1819-1892
Snow, Eliza Roxcy > 1804-1887
Ridge, John Rollin > 1827-1867
Whitfield, James Monroe > 1822-1871
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
Snow, Eliza Roxey, > 1804-1887.
1800-1899
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Poets, American > 19th century.
Poètes américains > 19e siècle.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Art appreciation
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
National characteristics, American, in literature
Poets, American
Lyrik
Nationalcharakter
Dichters.
Amerikaans.
Nationale identiteit.
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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