Monthly Archives: April 2009
David S. Reynolds
An essay by David S. Reynolds in the Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman:
James Perrin Warren
James Perrin Warren on Whitman’s poetry after the war:
M. Wynn Thomas
Image via Wikipedia M. Wynn Thomas on Whitman and the Civil War:
Stephen Railton
I addressing You: “Another very important secondary source for us was the Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by Ezra Greenspan.
Paul Zweig
A word on Paul Zweig’s article:
R. W. B. Lewis
Whitman’s poetical re-working, by R. W. B. Lewis:
“Poetry … cannot be translated”
Image via Wikipedia This is what translators call the theory of untranslatability of poetry: “Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a … Continue reading
James A. Wright
How delicate Whitman’s poetry is, by James A. Wright:
Richard Chase and Roy Harvey Pearce
Whitman’s political mind, by Richard Chase and his constant revisions and rearrangements, by Roy Harvey Pearce: “Continuing our critical review, we shall refer now to Richard Chase, whose article, “The Theory of America”, helped us a lot in understanding the … Continue reading
Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke, Politics, and Whitman’s contradictions: “Another critic in this volume is Kenneth Burke, whose article, “Policy Made Personal” (BLOOM, 1985, pp.25-54), naturally revolves around the political issue in Whitman’s works.
