Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
"Triumphal drums for the dead": "song of myself," 1855 -- "Great is death": leaves of grass poems, 1855 -- "The progress of souls": leaves of grass, 1856 -- "So long!": leaves of grass, 1860 -- "Come sweet death!": the drum-taps poems, 1865-1866 -- "Sweet, peaceful, welcome death": leaves of grass, 1867-1892.
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Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
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So long!.
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Walt Whitman's poetry of death
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Prose.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892., Leaves of grass.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Critique et interprétation.