Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 (Iowa Whitman Series)
by Gary Schmidgall
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It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who "succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality."That the balance finally tipped toward show more admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflagging show lessTags
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Gary Schmidgall is a professor of English at Hunter College and the City University of New York.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
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- 811.3 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry in English Middle 19th century 1830–1861
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- PS3231 .C57 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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