Walt Whitman

Standard Name: Whitman, Walt

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Literary responses Alice Walker
This book drew mixed reviews. It was praised for being in the tradition of Whitman and blamed for being almost never poetry.
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
390
Publishing Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg
Publishing Sylvia Beach
SB published her French translation of Walt Whitman 's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant , entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
226, 229
Reception Frances Wright
Walt Whitman paid tribute to FW as a woman of the noblest make-up whose orbit was a great deal larger than [those who condemned her]—too large to be tlerated for long by them: a most...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman
Textual Features Adrienne Rich
This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .
qtd. in
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
115
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman 's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet, 1987.
37n
She was asked to write this...
Textual Production Tillie Olsen
She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking (to their indignation) and...
Textual Production Willa Cather
For her second novel, O Pioneers! (titled from Walt Whitman ), WC turned to material which had been familiar to her since her childhood. The story takes place among settlers in early Nebraska.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!. Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Richardson
Her essays in this journal reflect her wide literary and social knowledge; they include Days with Walt Whitman, Thearchy and Socialism, Down with the Lords, and Nietzsche.
Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen, 1982.
190
Travel Julia Kristeva
JK travelled to the USA (to New York) for the first time in 1973, harbouring her own American dream founded on an early reading of Walt Whitman . She had been invited there seven years...

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