David S. Reynolds

A study of the life and works of one of America's finest poets is set against the social, cultural, and political backdrop of his time, offering new insights into his poetry, ideas, and imagery

A Cultural Biography

Walt Whitman's America

Maurice FitzGerald

This is a nice pretty exhaustive history of the whole sordid affair which really begins to stink up the place. Of course the author is all rah rah Whitman. The book ends with Whitman teary eyed about how he didn't get all that fucking respect the author thought he ought to have coming to him. That whole ending took one star away right there. For this inhuman poet pansy imperialist monster to go on about how his body is so electric makes me sick to my stomch

Walt Whitman's America A Cultural Biography

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