Offers advice on writing essays about the poetry of Walt Whitman and lists sample topics.
Author: Frank D. Casale
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438127682
Category: Criticism
Page: 273
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Walt Whitman's passionate writing style and bold subject matter have deeply influenced American poetry. Nearly all of his poems were published in Leaves of Grass, which Whitman obsessively expanded, edited, and republished throughout his life, ultimately leaving behind a powerful literary legacy. Twenty of his most commonly read and studied poems are discussed in depth in this volume, which also features ideas for essay topics to assist students in developing critical-thinking skills.
Presents a selection of important older literary criticism of selected works by Walt Whitman.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438112701
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 223
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Contains selections of literary criticism written between 1855 and 1960 that look at the life, general career, and specific works of American poet Walt Whitman.
Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song of Myself to the late poems of Good-bye My Fancy.
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9781931082327
Category: Poetry
Page: 221
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Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song of Myself to the late poems of Good-bye My Fancy.
Walt Whitman. SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY BREAST Scented herbage of my
breast , Leaves from you I glean , I write , to ... Every year shall you bloom again ,
out from where you retired you shall emerge again ; O I do not know whether
many ...
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: State Street Press
ISBN: 0681741945
Category: American poetry
Page: 224
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American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries, Whitman's poetry is a testament to the surging energies of 19th-century America and a monument to the transforming power of literary genius. His incantatory rhythms, revolutionary sense of Eros, and generous, all-embracing vision invite renewed wonder at each reading. Although he has been a defining influence for many poets -- Garcia Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Robinson Jeffers and Allen Ginsberg -- his style is ultimately inimitable, and his achievement unsurpassed in American poetry. "One always wants to start out fresh with Walt Whitman," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction, "and read him as though he never has been read before." In a selection that ranges from early notebook fragments and the complete "Song of Myself" to the valedictory "Good-bye My Fancy!," Bloom has chosen 47 works to represent "the principal writer that America -- North, Central, or South -- has brought to us." Book jacket.
Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on poets and poems.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9780791093757
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 507
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Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on poets and poems.
James B. Kelley, Harold Bloom ... What is the effect of the repeated line “When
company comes,” for example? ... Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes: Explore
the possible influence or inspiration of Walt Whitman on Hughes in general and ...
Author: James B. Kelley
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438128702
Category: Criticism
Page: 209
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Known for his poetic transformation of New England and nature, Robert Frost has retained his position through the years as one of the essential American poets of the 20th century. This book explores his classic works, including The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and The Death of the Hired Man.
write. about. HawtHorne. by. Harold. Bloom. Hawthorne's. novels and tales are at
the canonical center of ... These three were not the Seer of Concord's disciples,
who included Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Margaret Fuller, Robert Frost, and Hart ...
Author: Laurie A. Sterling
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438112459
Category: Criticism
Page: 344
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Bloom's How to Write About Nathaniel Hawthorne offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this important writer and his works.
Michael Robert Little Harold Bloom. How. to. write. about. robert. Frost:
introduction. by Harold Bloom ... The antithetical strains of Walt Whitman and of
T. S. Eliot fuse in Hart Crane, while Frost is closest to the gnomic poems of
Emerson himself ...
Author: Michael R. Little
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781604133479
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 248
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A guide to writing about the poems of the American author offers instructions for composing different types of essays and contains literary criticism for such works as "Birches," "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "Acquainted with the Night."
Kim Becnel Harold Bloom ... the emotional limitations of his protagonists and
demonstrate that his true precursor was Walt Whitman rather than Mark Twain,
particularly in Huckleberry Finn, as the author of the Nick Adams stories asserted.
Author: Kim Becnel
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9780791097465
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 280
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A guide to writing about the fiction of Ernest Hemingway offers instructions for composing different types of essays and contains literary criticism, analysis, and suggested essay topics for individual works.
Celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198753599
Category: LITERARY CRITICISM
Page: 528
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In The Daemon Knows, celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime lived among the works explored in these pages, this book is also one of Bloom's most profoundly personal to date.
Bloom treats the majority of his authors individually , in separate chapters ;
Pessoa , however , is placed alongside Neruda and Borges in a chapter entitled
... To my knowledge , Pessoa never wrote a volume under the name of Walt Whitman .
Discusses writing Walt Whitman : The Song of Himself ( 1999 ) , noting that
Loving and Whitman , the biographer and his ... from his 1919 “ Drei Hymnen von Walt Whitman ” to his 1946 " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd : A
Requiem ...
Again the deathless grass , so noiseless soft and green , Again the blood - red
roses blooming . ... Leaves from you I glean , I write , to be perused best
afterwards , Tomb - leaves , body - leaves growing up above me above death ,
Perennial ...
Author: Horace Traubel
Publisher: Philadelphia : Published by the editors through D. McKay
Kinnell said Villon had “ written it better than I could have written it , so I will just
put it in there . ” And as he wrote the poem , the words of several other writers —
Paul Célan and Walt Whitman — writing about firsthand experiences of the ...
Author: Clifford Chanin
Publisher:
ISBN: 081354212X
Category: History
Page: 291
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The twentieth century is frequently characterized in terms of its unprecedented levels of bloodshed. More human beings were killed or allowed to die by human cause than ever before in history. The impact of the century's carnage does not end with the lives that were taken; the atrocities continue to take their toll on those who survived, on those who bore witness, and on succeeding generations. Blooming through the Ashes features over sixty writings about this historic violence and its aftermath in a global anthology that brings together the work of Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney, Toni Morrison, Czeslaw Milosz, Wole Soyinka, Elie Wiesel, Imre Kertesz, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Eugenio Montale, and Pablo Neruda. In non-fiction and fiction, these writers and others reflect on the litany of man-made violence that marred the twentieth century and that shadows the twenty-first, including the Holocaust, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, apartheid, repression in Latin America, genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, and the attacks of 9/11. The texts are arranged thematically, rather than by event, in order to highlight the shared themes of memory expressed across culture and geography. Starting with visceral reactions to a violent event, chapters proceed through recognitions of loss, and move into statements of public remembrance through which future generations attempt to understand the impact of past violence.
An Introduction to Reading and Writing Walter B. Kalaidjian Judith Roof, Stephen
Watt ... Poems for Further Reading and Critical Writing Walt Whitman (1819-1892
) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1868) 1 When lilacs last in the ...
Author: Walter B. Kalaidjian
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618084924
Category: Psychology
Page: 2284
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Understanding Literature is an innovative anthology and technology package representing the next generation of literary pedagogy for introduction to literature and literature for composition courses. Built on a balanced foundation of canonical and nontraditional reading selections, this text includes discussions of the formal literary elements--and then goes a step further to integrate relevant and accessible coverage of contemporary criticism within each genre. This unique, integrated coverage of contemporary critical approaches (such as feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and postcolonial theory) offers students a richer, more engaging introduction to reading critically and writing about literature. Other anthologies offer minimal theoretical coverage in a separate chapter or appendix, typically sidestepping the larger issues the theories raise.The integrated technology package, complete with CD-ROM and accompanying web site, takes advantage of multimedia resources to enhance the study of literature with visual aids, audio and video files, additional primary and secondary texts, and other materials that help place literature within the broader contexts of history and culture. Engaging, creative table of contents balances familiar authors and literary works with more adventurous and diverse selections, exposing students to a broad range of literature and providing instructors with great flexibility in designing their courses.Critical Perspectives offer concise, insightful discussions of how literary and cultural theories are used to explore meaning in literature. Throughout the anthology casebooks, excerpts from classic and contemporary critical essays, and in-textdiscussions offer students accessible yet critical perspectives into how literary theory can facilitate a deeper understanding of literary texts. The fiction and drama sections feature brief in-text discussions and excerpts from literary critics. Critical Perspectives can also be used as a springboard for class discussion and writing.In-depth treatment of Featured Writers in each section allows more focused study of a single writer. This feature includes multiple reading selections showing the range of the writer' s work, more extensive biographical information, and additional materials on the CD-ROM and web site. Writers highlighted include James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, John Keats, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anne Sexton, and William Shakespeare.Two unique interdisciplinary chapters (The Beat Movement and Performative Poetics) focus on the spoken and performed aspects of literature. Coverage includes several works from key writers in both movements as well as discussions of how these movements use a mixture of media--language, film, jazz, photography, and art--to showcase their work and provide social and political commentary.Unique poetry casebooks allow students to explore certain themes or topics in depth, such as Poetry and Social Activism Between the Wars, Poetry, Trauma, and Testimony: Holocaust Verses, Postmodern Poetics, Chicano/a Poetry, and Native American Poetry.Emphasis on cultural perspectives reflects the increased desire to view the study of literature through the lens of culture. Reading selections, section introductions, questions for discussion, writing assignments, and other apparatus encourage students to view literature from differentcultural perspectives.Thorough coverage of reading and writing about literature shows students how to read each genre and craft effective essays. Annotated student papers serve as models of good student writing, and a separate section teaches students how to conduct research and incorporate other sources into their writing.An abundance of visual text--such as photos, art, and drawings--help students place literary works in broader contexts.
An intelligent introduction to this famous poem, including contextual information, an overview of critical reception and critical extracts, key passages with commentary and annotation, and the poem in its full 'final' 1881 edition.
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041527544X
Category: Poetry
Page: 210
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This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself. Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American. This sourcebook and critical edition provides easy access to: *information on the contexts of Whitman's work, including biographical details and a chronology *an overview of the critical reception of the poem and extracts from important criticism, reprinted with clear introductory headnotes *key passages from the original 1855 edition, with commentary and annotation *the full 'final' 1881 edition of the poem. Cross-references link the critical, contextual and textual sections of the volume, encouraging an integrated understanding of this creative and controversial text. Complementing a wealth of material with suggestions for further reading, this volume is ideal for readers with no knowledge of the poem, or for those returning anew to a favourite text
In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300167603
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 357
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In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Examines the literary period of the nineteenth century known as the American Renaissance that includes the work of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438114910
Category: American literature
Page: 369
View: 934
Examines the literary period of the nineteenth century known as the American Renaissance that includes the work of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
