ホイットマン論 On Whitman (Writers on Writers)

Williams, C. K.

Princeton University Press（2017/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780691176109
• DDC分類 811.3

Full Description

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.

Contents

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