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Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler : a poet and his physician

Title
Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler : a poet and his physician / Philip W. Leon.
Author
Leon, Philip W.
Publication
Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press ; East Haven, Conn. U.S.A. : Distributed in the U.S. by InBook, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Description
212 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Alternative Title
Walt Whitman & Sir William Osler
Subject
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Friends and associates
  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919 > Friends and associates
  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
  • Intellectual life > History > 19th century
  • Physicians
  • Poetry as Topic
Genre/Form
Biography.
Note
  • Includes text of Osler's Reminiscences.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index.
Contents
Ch. I. A Scythian Visitor at Delphi: Osler Meets Whitman -- Ch. II. Beyond the Doctor's Surgery: Osler's Reminiscences of Walt Whitman -- Ch. III. Waiting Responses from Oracles: Explication of Osler's Reminiscences -- Ch. IV. Dead Poets, Philosophs, Priests: Explication of Osler's Working Notes to His Reminiscences -- Ch. V. To Remain in Your Memories and Minds: On the Brains of Osler and Whitman -- Ch. VI. I Will Sing the Song of Companionship: Osler, Whitman, Bucke, and the Bolton College -- Ch. VII. The Substance of an Artist's Mood: Osler, Whitman, and Thomas Eakins -- Ch. VIII. A Backward Glance: Osler, Whitman, Edith Wharton, and Henry James -- Appendix: Entries about Osler in Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden.
ISBN
  • 1550222511 (bound) :
  • 155022252X (pbk.) :
LCCN
cn 95930645
OCLC
ocm32389502
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries