Williams On Whitman

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3433-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Writers on Writers

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, C. K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.