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1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index. |
| Contents |
"Triumphal drums for the dead": "song of myself," 1855 -- "Great is death": leaves of grass poems, 1855 -- "The progress of souls": leaves of grass, 1856 -- "So long!": leaves of grass, 1860 -- "Come sweet death!": the drum-taps poems, 1865-1866 -- "Sweet, peaceful, welcome death": leaves of grass, 1867-1892. |
| Summary |
Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Prose.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Prose. |
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Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt) |
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Death in literature.
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Death in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Walt Whitman's poetry of death |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Aspiz, Harold, 1921- So long!. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 081731377X 9780817313777 (DLC) 2003010210 (OCoLC)52216144 |
| ISBN |
9780817381639 (electronic book) |
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0817381635 (electronic book) |
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081731377X (alkaline paper) |
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9780817313777 (alkaline paper) |
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