So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

ends with a quote of Whitman placing his hands on a certain Wallace, who then slept peaceably (PW1892, 265). 48.Specimen Days, i ...

contrast, the third “side” of the square is occupied by a Whitmanlike ¤gure—a composite of Christ, Hermes, and Hercules—who brin ...

tile to Lincoln’s policies, but the third volume, published after Lincoln’s death cele- brates him as a hero-martyr. On Gurowski ...

Quoted Gates, “Egyptian Myths,” 31, no. 17. Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholy,” The Standard Edition of the Psychological ...

William Rounseville Alger’s Doctrine of a Future Life, cited in William Sloane Kennedy, “The Germ Idea of Whitman’s ‘Noiseless ...

Henry Seidel Canby calls the poem’s music “Tennysonian,” and compares it to “the last aria of the tenor in a tragic opera” (Wal ...

other different body” (The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Hawthorne and Melville [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1981], ...

“Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s” and “Sail Out for Good Eidòlon Yacht,” LG, 543, 539. 61.LG, 534. See Mrs. Herbert S. Harn ...

ated possible “eunuchoidism,” attributable to an androgen de¤ciency. See also WWBB, 31–33. Ernest Rhys, Everyone Remembers (New ...

mad”; James Gibbons Huneker, the literary and musical critic, who had once viewed Whitman favorably, attacked him, in what has b ...

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