The interviews with and recollections of Whitman collected by Joel Myerson represent a wide spectrum of accountsvisitors from America and abroad; newspaper interviewers; Whitman's doctor and nurse during his final illness; his literary executors; a student from his early schoolteaching days; and such well-known authors as Bronson Alcott, John Burroughs, and Henry David Thoreau. The selections also paint a well-rounded picture of Whitman, from his early days as a schoolteacher to the moment of his death, and demonstrate a varying range of attitudes toward the poet. Yet throughout the entire collection, Whitman himself holds center stage, and he is seen as vividly today as he was over one hundred years ago. Myerson's introduction to this expanded edition places these accounts of Whitman within the context of the time and discusses new scholarship on Whitman's life.
The interviews with and recollections of Whitman collected by Joel Myerson represent a wide spectrum of accountsvisitors from America and abroad; newspaper interviewers; Whitman's doctor and nurse during his final illness; his literary executors; a student from his early schoolteaching days; and such well-known authors as Bronson Alcott, John Burroughs, and Henry David Thoreau. The selections also paint a well-rounded picture of Whitman, from his early days as a schoolteacher to the moment of his death, and demonstrate a varying range of attitudes toward the poet. Yet throughout the entire collection, Whitman himself holds center stage, and he is seen as vividly today as he was over one hundred years ago. Myerson's introduction to this expanded edition places these accounts of Whitman within the context of the time and discusses new scholarship on Whitman's life.
Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Own Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends and Associates
366Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Own Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends and Associates
366Paperback(Expanded)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780877457282 |
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Publisher: | University of Iowa Press |
Publication date: | 09/01/2000 |
Series: | Iowa Whitman Series |
Edition description: | Expanded |
Pages: | 366 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |