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Walt Whitman Handbook

Walt Whitman Handbook

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Condition: Very Good

Condition Notes: Cover shows minor wear with some light stains. Pages are clean and in good shape. Binding is tight.

Author(s): Gay Wilson Allen
Edition: 1st Edition

Publication year: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Packard and Company

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First published in 1946 by Packard and Company, Gay Wilson Allen’s [Walt Whitman Handbook] stands as a foundational, encyclopedic text that fundamentally organized modern academic study of America’s foremost poet. Writing as a preeminent Whitman authority, Allen arranges the 560-page manual into comprehensive structural divisions that trace the evolution of Whitman biography, offer an analytical timeline of the text variants of Leaves of Grass, and break down the unique poetic rhythms and biblical analogies undergirding his prosody. The reference guide balances its technical literary criticism with a thorough survey of Whitman's global reception, detailing his reception across European, Latin American, and Asian literary circles. Functioning as an objective, unvarnished research tool, this manual strips away early mythmaking to provide students and historians with a systematic, clear framework for analyzing the relationship between the poet's life and his artistic legacy.

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