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catalog contributor b955579.
catalog created "[1968]".
catalog date "1968".
catalog date "[1968]".
catalog dateCopyrighted "[1968]".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
catalog description "Notice of Walt Whitman's life : Born in 1819 on Long Island ; His ancestry ; Life in boyhood at Brooklyn ; Teaching school and journalism ; Learns the printing trade ; Youth and early manhood in New York ; Descriptions of his personal appearance and qualities ; Roamings through the southern and western states ; Speculates in building ; Forms the first conception of "Leaves of Grass" ; Experiments in style ; First edition of 1855 ; Its reception ; Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln ; Walt adheres to his original plan ; The secession war ; Hospital work ; Severe illness in 1864 ; Paralysis in 1873 ; "Drum Taps" and "Democratic Vistas" ; Whitman and Secretary Harlan ; Whitman in the Attorney-General's office ; His chronic bad health, owing to the stress of hospital-work, lays him up ; Poverty ; "Specimen Days" ; Their value for the understanding of his character ; Protracted invalidism at Camden, N.J. -- Growth of his fame as writer ; Devoted friends ; Death in 1892 --".
catalog description "Study of Walt Whitman : I. Difficulty of dealing with Whitman's work by any purely critical method ; Controversies aroused by "Leaves of Grass" ; The man and his personality ; Leadership of a cause ; Originality and largeness of scale ; Impossibility of reducing his doctrine to a system ; The main points of his creed -- II. Religion ; God immanent in the universe ; All faith and dogmas are provisional, relative in value ; Analysis of the poem "Chanting the Square Deific" ; Unrestricted faith and imperturbable optimism ; In what way was Whitman a Christian? ; His religion corresponds to the principles of modern science ; The cosmic enthusiasm ; Its importance for the individual -- III. Personality or self ; The meaning of egotism for Whitman ; Intimate connection between man and nature ; Paramount importance of a sound and self-reliant personality ; All things exist for the individual ; Body and soul ; The ideal of athletic selfhood -- IV. Sex-love ; Amativeness and adhesiveness ; Love of women, love of comrades ; Whitman's treatment of the normal sexual emotions ; His relation to science ; The poet's touch on scientific truths ; Breadth of view ; Primitive conception of sexuality and marriage ; Misconceptions to which his doctrines have been exposed -- V. The love of comrades ; "Calamus" ; The ideal of a friendship, fervid, passionate, pure ; Novelty of this conception ; Liability to misconstruction ; Question whether a new type of chivalry be not involved in the doctrine of "Calamus" ; Political importance of comradeship ; Speculations on the ground-stuff of "Calamus" --".
catalog description "VI. Democracy ; The word En-Masse ; Equality of human beings ; Miracles are all around us in the common world ; Wherever and whoever ; Heroism in daily life no less than in ancient fable or religious myth ; Democracy under the aspect of a new creed ; Questions regarding democratic art ; Extension of the spheres of poetry and plastic beauty ; Middle-class prejudices and pettinesses ; The advent of the people ; Critique of culture ; America and Europe ; Whitman's firm belief in democracy ; The "Divine Average" ; His attitude toward the past -- VII. Whitman's start in literature ; Attempts to create a new style ; Analysis of the first preface to "Leaves of Grass" (1855) ; Qualities, intellectual and moral, demanded from the democratic bard -- VIII-IX. Summary of Whitman's description of the poet ; How far did he realise his own ideal? ; Weak points in his method ; His permanently substantial qualities ; Question whether his writings are to be called poetry ; Passages proving his high rank as a creative artist -- X. Return to the difficulty of criticising Whitman ; Allusive and metaphorical ways of presenting him ; The main thing is to make people read him ; Statement by the author of this stuidy of what Whitman did for himself.".
catalog extent "xxxv, 160 p.".
catalog hasFormat "Walt Whitman.".
catalog isFormatOf "Walt Whitman.".
catalog issued "1968".
catalog issued "[1968]".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York, AMS Press".
catalog relation "Walt Whitman.".
catalog subject "PS3231 .S8 1968".
catalog subject "Poets, American 19th century Biography.".
catalog subject "Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Biography.".
catalog subject "Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.".
catalog tableOfContents "Notice of Walt Whitman's life : Born in 1819 on Long Island ; His ancestry ; Life in boyhood at Brooklyn ; Teaching school and journalism ; Learns the printing trade ; Youth and early manhood in New York ; Descriptions of his personal appearance and qualities ; Roamings through the southern and western states ; Speculates in building ; Forms the first conception of "Leaves of Grass" ; Experiments in style ; First edition of 1855 ; Its reception ; Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln ; Walt adheres to his original plan ; The secession war ; Hospital work ; Severe illness in 1864 ; Paralysis in 1873 ; "Drum Taps" and "Democratic Vistas" ; Whitman and Secretary Harlan ; Whitman in the Attorney-General's office ; His chronic bad health, owing to the stress of hospital-work, lays him up ; Poverty ; "Specimen Days" ; Their value for the understanding of his character ; Protracted invalidism at Camden, N.J. -- Growth of his fame as writer ; Devoted friends ; Death in 1892 --".
catalog tableOfContents "Study of Walt Whitman : I. Difficulty of dealing with Whitman's work by any purely critical method ; Controversies aroused by "Leaves of Grass" ; The man and his personality ; Leadership of a cause ; Originality and largeness of scale ; Impossibility of reducing his doctrine to a system ; The main points of his creed -- II. Religion ; God immanent in the universe ; All faith and dogmas are provisional, relative in value ; Analysis of the poem "Chanting the Square Deific" ; Unrestricted faith and imperturbable optimism ; In what way was Whitman a Christian? ; His religion corresponds to the principles of modern science ; The cosmic enthusiasm ; Its importance for the individual -- III. Personality or self ; The meaning of egotism for Whitman ; Intimate connection between man and nature ; Paramount importance of a sound and self-reliant personality ; All things exist for the individual ; Body and soul ; The ideal of athletic selfhood -- IV. Sex-love ; Amativeness and adhesiveness ; Love of women, love of comrades ; Whitman's treatment of the normal sexual emotions ; His relation to science ; The poet's touch on scientific truths ; Breadth of view ; Primitive conception of sexuality and marriage ; Misconceptions to which his doctrines have been exposed -- V. The love of comrades ; "Calamus" ; The ideal of a friendship, fervid, passionate, pure ; Novelty of this conception ; Liability to misconstruction ; Question whether a new type of chivalry be not involved in the doctrine of "Calamus" ; Political importance of comradeship ; Speculations on the ground-stuff of "Calamus" --".
catalog tableOfContents "VI. Democracy ; The word En-Masse ; Equality of human beings ; Miracles are all around us in the common world ; Wherever and whoever ; Heroism in daily life no less than in ancient fable or religious myth ; Democracy under the aspect of a new creed ; Questions regarding democratic art ; Extension of the spheres of poetry and plastic beauty ; Middle-class prejudices and pettinesses ; The advent of the people ; Critique of culture ; America and Europe ; Whitman's firm belief in democracy ; The "Divine Average" ; His attitude toward the past -- VII. Whitman's start in literature ; Attempts to create a new style ; Analysis of the first preface to "Leaves of Grass" (1855) ; Qualities, intellectual and moral, demanded from the democratic bard -- VIII-IX. Summary of Whitman's description of the poet ; How far did he realise his own ideal? ; Weak points in his method ; His permanently substantial qualities ; Question whether his writings are to be called poetry ; Passages proving his high rank as a creative artist -- X. Return to the difficulty of criticising Whitman ; Allusive and metaphorical ways of presenting him ; The main thing is to make people read him ; Statement by the author of this stuidy of what Whitman did for himself.".
catalog title "Walt Whitman; a study. London, J. C. Nimmo, 1893.".
catalog type "text".