Walt Whitman

JK travelled to the USA (to New York) for the first time in 1973, harbouring her own American dream founded on an early reading of Walt Whitman . She had been invited there seven years...

Her essays in this journal reflect her wide literary and social knowledge; they include Days with Walt Whitman, Thearchy and Socialism, Down with the Lords, and Nietzsche.

The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman 's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long. She was asked to write this...

For her second novel, O Pioneers! (titled from Walt Whitman ), WC turned to material which had been familiar to her since her childhood. The story takes place among settlers in early Nebraska.

She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking (to their indignation) and...

EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .

She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...

This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...

Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman

Walt Whitman paid tribute to FW as a woman of the noblest make-up whose orbit was a great deal larger than [those who condemned her]—too large to be tlerated for long by them: a most...

SB published her French translation of Walt Whitman 's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant , entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent.

She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg

This book drew mixed reviews. It was praised for being in the tradition of Whitman and blamed for being almost never poetry.

The sequence entitled Karakoram Highway (second of the book's three sections), with an epigraph from Walt Whitman , distils moments from KJ 's travels in Northern Pakistan. From the first poem, about coming...

Again DL produces a fractured plot, mirroring a sense of fractured identity in a fractured world where the classic rules of form and structure no longer fit. She uses for an epigraph the remark...