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So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death by Harold Aspiz (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press
ISBN-10081731377X
ISBN-139780817313777
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038681848
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSo Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
Publication Year2003
SubjectPoetry, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorHarold Aspiz
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-010210
Reviews"Makes a vital contribution to the study of Walt Whitman and does what no other study does--treats in depth Whitman's sense of death while speaking about the poems as poems, not just ideas." --Sherry Ceniza, author of Walt Whitman and 19th Century Women Reformers, "Harold Aspiz's So Long! marks the culmination in the work of a distinguished scholar of Walt Whitman, one who has already blazed more than a few trails in our appreciation of Leaves of Grass. " --Jerome Loving, author of Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal811.3
SynopsisExplores Whitman's intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman's career as a thinker, a poet, and a person. Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass , its constituent poems, particularly "Song of Myself," and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life--the cascade of sounds, sights, and smells that erupt in his verse--is a consequence of his central concern: the ever-presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife. Until now no one has studied as systematically the degree to which mortality informs Whitman's entire enterprise as a poet. So Long! devotes particular attention to Whitman's language and rich artistry in the context of the poet's social and intellectual milieus. We see Whitman (and his many personae) as a folk prophet announcing a gospel of democracy and immortality; pondering death in alternating moods of acceptance and terror; fantasizing his own dying and his postmortem selfhood; yearning for mates and lovers while conscious of fallible flesh; agonizing over the omnipresence of death in wartime; patiently awaiting death; and launching imaginary journeys toward immortality and godhood. So Long! is valuable for American literature collections, students and scholars of Whitman and 19th-century literature, and general readers interested in Whitman and poetry. By exploring Whitman's faith in death as a meaningful experience, we may understand better how the poet--whether personified as representative man, victim, hero, lover, or visionary--lived so completely on the edge of life., Explores Whitman's intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife, Explores WhitmanOCOs intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define WhitmanOCOs career as thinker, poet, and person. Through a close reading of "Leaves of Grass," its constituent poems, particularly OC Song of Myself, OCO and WhitmanOCOs prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poetOCOs exuberant celebration of life--the cascade of sounds, sights, and smells that erupt in his verse--is a consequence of his central concern: the ever-presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife. "So Long " devotes particular attention to WhitmanOCOs language and rich artistry in the context of the poetOCOs social and intellectual milieus. We see Whitman (and his many personae) as a folk prophet announcing a gospel of democracy and immortality; pondering death in alternating moods of acceptance and terror; fantasizing his own dying and his postmortem selfhood; yearning for mates and lovers while conscious of mordant flesh; agonizing over the omnipresence of death in wartime; patiently awaiting death; and launching imaginary journeys toward immortality and godhood. By exploring WhitmanOCOs faith in death as a meaningful experience, we may understand better how the poet--whether personified as representative man, victim, hero, lover, or visionary--lived so completely on the edge of life.a Harold Aspiz is Professor of English Emeritus at California State University, Long Beach, and author of "Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful.""
LC Classification NumberPS3242.D35A87 2003
