Walt Whitman looked to many different areas of American culture to develop a distinctively American poetry. Scholar Ed Folsom investigates four of the areas Whitman found most fertile for his own poetic development the evolution of American dictionaries, the growth of the national sport of baseball, the decimation of American Indians, and the development of American photography. Illus.
Über den Autor Ed Folsom
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Ed Folsom is Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and the author or editor of five books on Whitman, including Walt Whitman's Native Representations (1994) and Whitman East and West (1992). Kenneth M. Price is the Hillegass Professor of American Literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the co-director of the Walt Whitman archive, editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews, and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in his Century (1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (2004).
