The evolution of Walt Whitman - 2 tomes

Très bon état général

Contents

Tome I - The creation of a personality

Youth - The unsuccessfull quest

The 1855 edition - Birth of a poet

The 1856 edition

New uncertainties

The 1860 edition

The wound dresser

Happy bureaucrat and tormented poet

The heroic invalid (1873-1876)

New victories (1876-1882)

The decline (1883-1890)

Last months and death (1891-1892)

Tome II - The creation of a book

The main themes of leaves of grass

Mysticism and the poetry of the body

The implicit metaphysics

The ethics

The fundamental aesthetics

Sex life - "The love that dare not speak its name"

"The states" - Egocentrism and patriotism

Democracy - "Myself" and man "enmasse"

Democracy and racialism - Slavery

Inductrial civilization

The progress of his art

Style : from mysticism to art

Language : innovations and traditions

Prosody : order within discorder

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1960-1962, 376 + 392 p.