On Whitman (Writers on Writers)
著者: C. K. Williams
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| Hardcover: | 208 ページ |
| 出版社: | Princeton University Press |
| 出版日: | 2010年4月18日 |
| ISBN: | 0691144729 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691144726 |
| 参考価格: | $19.95 |
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In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of 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--or reintroduction--to Whitman.
In brief, thematic chapters with many quotations from Leaves of Grass, Williams explores the innovations, originality, and sheer genius of the poetry that has become, as he puts it, "the unconscious" of much of the poetry of America and the world. Williams pays particular attention to the music of Whitman's poetry, its blazing perception and enormous human sympathy, its affecting anecdotes, and its vast cast of characters, as well as to the radical nature of Whitman's first-person speaker, his liberating attitude toward sex, and his unconventional ideas about death. While conveying the singularities of Whitman's work, Williams also shows what Whitman had in common with other great poets of his time, such as Baudelaire, and the powerful influence Whitman had on later poets such as Eliot and Pound.
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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: William B. Jones None - 2010年7月30日On Whitman and His Still-Sung Song
Beginning with a question posed by a friend, namely, "What in heaven's name is left to say?" of Walt Whitman, C. K. Williams responds with a personal look at (mostly) the earlier poems and (largely) his continuing poetic presence. Inhabiting full the human form (in his imagination, at least), likening himself near to Christ, visioning democracy for America and (over)re-visioning Leaves of Grass -- this is the Whitman Williams brings to fore.
A concise, pocket-sized companion with which to revisit (or, lucky reader! meet for the first time) the poet before whose self-publication the self was rarely imagined in so brilliant and expansive a pose. With intriguing consideration of the not-entirely separable categories (though Williams tries) of imagination, religious sensibility and mysticism variably applied to Whitman's work.
