The context of nineteenth-century American literature, often heavily imitative of British
traditions, would seem to be inhospitable to both the production and reception of the …

INETEENTH-CENTURY TEXTBOOKS DEALING WITH AMERI-CAN POETRY form a rich
and largely untapped source for measurin Walt Whitman's developing reputation and the …

The first section of Greenspan's book offers an overview of the" conditions for authorship" in
Whitman's time. Some of Greenspan's best insights occur in his careful readings of …

In 1856 Henry David Thoreau speculated about the character of America's newest poet."
Since I have seen him/'he wrote of Walt Whitman," I find that I am not disturbed by any brag …

When I went to graduate school in 1970 I decided to study American literature out of a
perplexed despair about being an American. America and Amerika, the Great Society and …

In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor
on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture--a culture redefining its …

Like America, Walt Whitman and his critical reputation is vast and seemingly everexpanding.
This sort of statement, which makes a direct connection between Whitman himself and the …

Provides an account of the author's involvement in Whitman scholarship, including an
account of the academic climate in mid-twentieth century America and of the author's …

Walt Whitman warned against reading Leaves of Grass ''without first carefully tallying the
preparatory background''(Prose Works, 2: 717). This second volume of Whitman's collected …

covered Whitman for literary study in the academy at the same time that he urged American
scholars to close the distance between their academic concerns and the cultural needs of a …