American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet /

American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet /

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While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionis...

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Main Author: Whitley, Edward Keyes
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Appreciation > United States.
Whitfield, James Monroe, > 1822-1871.
Snow, Eliza R. > (Eliza Roxey), > 1804-1887.
Ridge, John Rollin, > 1827-1867.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Influence.
1800-1899
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Poets, American > 19th century.
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