Williams, C. K. 1936-

On Whitman / C.K. Williams. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. - xvi, 187 p. ; 20 cm. - Writers on writers . - Writers on writers. .

The music -- The past -- Beginnings -- Vision -- Depths -- The man before the poems -- Self-made -- The notebooks -- Emerson and the greatest poet -- The greatest poet submits a poem for publication -- "I" -- A dare -- "You" -- America -- The modern, one : Baudelaire -- Hugo and Longfellow-- The modern, two : Eliot and Pound -- Others -- The body -- Sex -- Woman -- Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The faggots" -- Nature -- Prophets -- Imagination -- Mortality -- Mortality again -- The sad captain -- Lines -- The voice -- Life after -- What he teaches us.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Influence.

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