Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
Walt Whitman&the World Edited by Gay Wilson Allen & Ed Folsom This book started as an updating of Gay Wilson Allen’s Walt Whitman Abroad (1955), but it turned into a project trying to capture the ongoing poetic dialogue with Whitman around the world for more than a century, a kind of resistant “talking back” to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
”Whitman Making Books, Books Making Whitman” by Ed Folsom URL: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/anc.00150.html All Times&Moods of the Good Gray Poet An outline of Whitman’s work which opens a new perspective to his work, drawing our attention to the whole range of Whitman’s bookmaking activities and revealing how those skills influenced his work, but also how those mere […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2009 4 Comments »
The documentary „The American Experience: Walt Whitman“ by Mark Zwonitzer A documentary very stimulating and suggestive, with capacity to illuminate all the central problems in Walt Whitman’s life, skillfully combining autobiographical, sociological, historical and religious themes. A story told in a lively and engaging way inviting numerous impressions, conclusions and above all feelings about Whitman […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
My dear colleagues, I could not resist the temptation to draw your attention to the story about one of Karen’s students, a sophomore art major named Alice Wetterlund, that you may read on the page XLIV in the book Karen gave us. I was almost touched to tears while reading this passage, because I was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
After having discussed the phrenological term “adhesiveness” this Saturday during our class, used to refer to the attachment between men, the word “comrade” caught my attention while I was reading “In Paths Untrodden” from the “Calamus” cluster. “Adhesiveness” and “comrade” evoke at first “sticky or gluey” and “a companion or a member of the Communist […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
“I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you And you must not be abased to the other. Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best, Only the […]