Containing Multitudes
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-937441-0 (ISBN)
Gary Schmidgall is Professor of English at Hunter College at the City University of New York. His books include Shakespeare and Opera (OUP, 1990), The Stranger Wilde (Dutton, 1994) Walt Whitman: A Gay Life (Dutton, 1997), and Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1882-1892 (University of Iowa Press, 2001).
Note on Notes and Citation ; Preface ; 1. An Introduction: Leaves and the Retrospective Lands ; "Terrible Query": An American Literature? ; "That Wonderful Little Island": British Literature in Leaves of Grass ; Prospective: "Lacks and Wants Yet" ; 2. Shakespeare and Whitman ; Whitman and the Bacon Debate ; Walt vs. The Bard ; Mellifluous and Honey-tongued Poets ; Whitman and the Romantics' Shakespeare: Victor Hugo ; Parallel Lives? ; 3. Milton and Whitman ; Debutant Poets: 1645, 1855 ; Whitman and America Read Milton ; Camerados Close ; Satan and Walt ; Answerable Styles ; Strange Bedfellows After All? ; Awakeners ; 4. Burns and Whitman ; Camerado Bards ; Walt Reads Rob ; Self-esteem ; Mystic Tie of Brotherhood ; The Self-satisfied Preachers ; Outre Beings ; Conscious Painful Being ; Old Acquaintance ; Of Tombs: A Coda ; 5. Blake and Whitman ; Making the Connection ; Two Mystics Together Clinging ; Other, Stronger Lessons ; Poets of Contrariety and Rebellion ; Iconoclasts: Poetry Unfettered ; Poets of Sexual Delight ; Announcing Adhesiveness ; Death's Door: A Coda ; 6. Wordsworth and Whitman ; Walt on Wordsworth ; The 'Prelude' to Whitman ; Prospectus: Knowing the World ; Self-empowerment ; 'Green' Poets: Nature and Democracy ; 'Mighty Scheme of Truth': Prophets of a New Religion ; 'Great Social Principle of Life': Comradery ; At War with General Tendency ; Separate Persons ; 7. Whitman and Some Other 'Big Fellows' ; Walter Scott ; Thomas Carlyle ; Alfred Tennyson ; Oscar Wilde ; Algernon Swinburne ; Notes ; Foreword ; Introduction ; Shakespeare ; Milton ; Burns ; Blake ; Wordsworth ; Some Other 'Big Fellows'
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | 7 halftones |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 234 x 165 mm |
Gewicht | 655 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-937441-4 / 0199374414 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-937441-0 / 9780199374410 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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