On Whitman
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 2010
208 pages
978-1-4008-3433-4 (ISBN)
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman
In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it-to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it-to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
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C. K. Williams (1936-2015) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He taught creative writing and translation at Princeton University.
Content
Preface vii
Note xiii
The Music 1
The Past 5
Beginnings 9
Vision 14
Depths 21
The Man Before the Poems 23
Self-Made 27
The Notebooks 36
Emerson and the Greatest Poet 40
The Greatest Poet Submits a Poem for Publication 47
"I" 48
A Dare 54
"You" 57
America 65
The Modern, One: Baudelaire 74
Hugo and Longfellow 80
The Modern, Two: Eliot and Pound 83
Others 87
The Body 91
Sex 101
Woman 112
Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The Faggots" 119
Nature 129
Prophets 139
Imagination 149
Mortality 153
Mortality Again 163
The Sad Captain 171
Lines 172
The Voice 178
Life After 181
What He Teaches Us 184
Note xiii
The Music 1
The Past 5
Beginnings 9
Vision 14
Depths 21
The Man Before the Poems 23
Self-Made 27
The Notebooks 36
Emerson and the Greatest Poet 40
The Greatest Poet Submits a Poem for Publication 47
"I" 48
A Dare 54
"You" 57
America 65
The Modern, One: Baudelaire 74
Hugo and Longfellow 80
The Modern, Two: Eliot and Pound 83
Others 87
The Body 91
Sex 101
Woman 112
Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The Faggots" 119
Nature 129
Prophets 139
Imagination 149
Mortality 153
Mortality Again 163
The Sad Captain 171
Lines 172
The Voice 178
Life After 181
What He Teaches Us 184
