Walt Whitman, Yesterday and Today

Walt Whitman, Yesterday and Today

Walt Whitman, Yesterday & TodayOn a day about mid-year in 1855, the conventional literary world was startled...
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Author: Legler, Henry Eduard,1861-1917
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Walt Whitman, Yesterday and Today

Walt Whitman, Yesterday and Today

$106.19 $53.07

Walt Whitman, Yesterday and Today

$106.19 $53.07
Author: Legler, Henry Eduard,1861-1917
Format: eBook
Language: English

Walt Whitman, Yesterday & Today

On a day about mid-year in 1855, the conventional literary world was startled into indecorous behavior by the unannounced appearance of a thin quarto sheaf of poems, in form and in tone unlike anything of precedent issue. It was called Leaves of Grass, and there were but twelve poems in the volume. No authors name appeared upon the title page, the separate poems bore no captions, there was no imprint of publisher. A steel engraving of a man presumably between thirty and forty years of age, coatless, shirt flaringly open at the neck, and a copyright notice identifying Walter Whitman with the publication, furnished the only clues. Uncouth in size, atrociously printed, and shockingly frank in the language employed, the volume evoked such a tirade of rancorous condemnation as perhaps bears no parallel in the history of letters. From contemporary criticisms might be compiled an Anthology of Anathema comparable to Wagners Schimpf-Lexicon, or the Dictionary of Abuse suggested by William Archer for Henrik Ibsen. Some of the striking adjectives and phrases employed in print would include the following, as applied either to the verses or their author:[10] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31027
Author: Legler, Henry Eduard
Release Date: Jan 20, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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