Research Catalog

Title

Walt Whitman : the measure of his song / edited by Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, & Dan Campion ; introduction by Ed Folsom.

Publication

Minneapolis : Holy Cow! Press, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Perlman, Jim, 1951-
• Folsom, Ed, 1947-
• Campion, Dan, 1949-
• Holy Cow! Press, publisher.

Description

liii, 394 pages : portraits; 23 cm

Subject

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Influence
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
• Whitman, Walt
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1855-1980
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• American poetry
• Quelle
• Rezeption

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Galley proofs (Printing)
• Proof copies (Printing)

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 359-381.

Contents

• Talking back to Walt Whitman: an introduction / Ed Folsom -- 1855-1905. A Letter to Whitman / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A Letter to Harrison Blake / Henry David Thoreau -- From a Letter to W.D. O'Connor / Matthew Arnold -- To Walt Whitman in America / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- To Walt Whitman / Joaquin Miller -- To Walt Whitman from Some Younger English Friends / Ernest Rhys -- From a Letter to Robert Bridges / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Walt Whitman / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- A Letter to Walt Whitman / Louis Sullivan -- Walt Whitman / Ruben Dario -- A Tribute of Grasses / Hamlin Garland -- From Walt Whitman / Edmund Gosse -- Walt Whitman / Robert Buchanan -- To W.W. / George Cabot Lodge --
• 1905-1955. A Pact / Ezra Pound -- What I Feel About Walt Whitman / Ezra Pound -- Salutation to Walt Whitman / Fernando Pessoa -- Petit, the Poet / Edgar Lee Masters -- Walt Whitman / Emanuel Carnevali -- Whitman / Witter Bynner -- Whitman / D.H. Lawrence -- Retort to Whitman / D.H. Lawrence -- Bouquets and Brickbats / Carl Sandburg -- Cape Hatteras / Hart Crane -- From Whitman and Tennyson / T.S. Eliot -- Walt Whitman / Sherwood Anderson -- Walt Whitman / Ezequiel Martinez Estrada -- Ode to Walt Whitman / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery / Wallace Stevens -- To a Dame Who Sneered When She Saw My Sox / Paul Potts -- The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman / Langston Hughes -- Old Walt / Langston Hughes -- The Orange Bears / Kenneth Patchen -- Whitman and the Problem of Good / Muriel Rukeyser -- Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves / Pedro Mir -- Walt Whitman / Henry Miller -- The American Idiom / William Carlos Williams --
• 1955-1980. A Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- 168th Chorus / Jack Kerouac -- Centenial for Whitman / Richard Eberhart -- Comments / Richard Eberhart -- Walt Whitman / Edwin Hoing -- Ode to Walt Whitman / Pablo Neruda -- I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman / Pablo Neruda -- We Live In A Whitmanesque Age / Pablo Neruda -- Camden,1892 / Jorge Luis Borges -- Note on Walt Whitman / Jorge Luis Borges -- Fastball / Jonathan Williams -- Autopsy / Jonathan Williams -- Whitman's song / Robert Flanagan -- From Song of Myself: Intention and Substance / John Berryman -- Despair / John Berryman -- From A Common Ground / Denise Levertov -- The Delicacy of Walt Whitman / James Wright -- Communion / David Ignatow -- Son to Father / David Ignatow -- Waiting Inside / David Ignatow -- From The Abyss / Theodore Roethke -- Walt Whitman / Edward Dahlberg -- A Modern Poet / Howard Nemerov -- Letters to Walt Whitman / Ronald Johnson -- I, Mencius, Pupil of the Master / Charles Olson -- Introduction / Robert Creeley -- Populist Manifesto / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Face on the Daguerreotype / Norman Rosten -- Over Colorado / Derek Walcott -- Hopkins to Whitman / Philip Dacey -- For You, Walt Whitman / William Stafford -- The Good Grey Poet / Theodore Weiss -- For Whitman / Diane Wakoski -- Whitman's Indicative Words / Galway Kinnell --
• 1980s. Allen Ginsberg on Walt Whitman: Composed on the Tongue / Allen Ginsberg -- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain / Louis Simpson -- Honoring Whitman / Louis Simpson -- Pacific Ideas: A Letter to Walt Whitman / Louis Simpson -- With Walt Whitman at Fredericksburg / Dave Smith -- Essay Beginning and Ending with Poems for Whitman / William Heyen -- To Love the Earth: Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman / Joseph Bruchac -- I Teach Straying from Me Yet Who Can Stray from Me / Alvaro Cardona Hine -- Whitman / Larry Levis -- Walt's Walz / Anselm Hollo -- Some Intricate Purpose / Michael Kincaid -- For Walt Whitman / Patricia Goedicke -- The Mayflower Moment: Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War / Patricia Hampl -- Reaching Around / Judith Moffett -- Revolutionary Frescoes: The Ascension / Thomas McGrath -- What Whitman did not give us / Robert Bly -- Whitman Exilado / C.W. Truesdale -- For the Sake of a People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us / June Jordan -- Jelly Roll / Meridel LeSueur.

ISBN

• 0930100093
• 9780930100094
• 0930100085
• 9780930100087

LCCN

80085268

OCLC

• ocm07571900
• 7571900
• SCSB-8816017

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library