Walt Whitman's Champion
William Douglas O'Connor
In 1865 Walt Whitman was dismissed from his clerkship in the Department of the Interior because Secretary James Harlan judged Leaves of Grass indecent, unfit to be read aloud by the evening lamp. Most eloquent among Whitman's defenders was William Douglas O'Connor, whose pamphlet The Good Gray Poet, a panegyric to Whitman and an attack on literary censorship in general and Harlan in particular, was the first of his many heroic if sometimes excessive efforts in Whitman's behalf. A gifted polemicist and a stout though not always judicious advocate of causes (he wrote several screeds favoring Bacon as the author of Shakespeare's works), O'Connor…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58544-085-6
- EAN: 9781585440856
- Produktnummer: 1503371
- Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 440 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 440
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