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American Bards : Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet /
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of nationa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.