The Structure of Leaves of Grass

by Thomas Edward Crawley

Book Overview

Modern critics and contemporary readers familiar with the field of Whitman criticism may find surprising an analysis of the structure of Leaves of Grass that concerns itself with Whitman as the poet-prophet and the identification of Whitman (or of his persona in the poem) with Christ. Early twentieth-century criticism has tended to exalt the early Whitman at the expense of the later one and to regard as poetically inferior the image of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292766181
• ISBN13: 9780292766181
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"