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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Ted Genoways
其他書名
The Correspondence, Volume VII
出版
University of Iowa Press
, 2004-05
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Collections / Letters
Literary Criticism / Medieval
ISBN
087745891X
9780877458913
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dLBlAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1961 the first volume of Edwin Haviland Miller’s
The Correspondence
was published in the newly established series the
Collected Writings of Walt Whitman
. Miller proceeded to publish five additional volumes of Whitman letters, and other leading scholars, including Roger Asselineau, compiled accompanying volumes of prose, poems, and daybooks. Yet by the late 1980s, the Whitman
Collected Writings
project was hopelessly scattered, fragmented, and incomplete.
Now, more than forty years after the inaugural volume’s original publication, Ted Genoways brings scholars the latest volume in
Walt Whitman: The Correspondence
. Incorporating all of the letters Miller had collected before his death in 2001 and combining them with more than a hundred previously unknown letters he himself gathered, Genoways’s volume is a perfect accompaniment to Miller’s original work.
Among the more than one hundred fifty letters collected in this volume are numerous correspondences concerning Whitman’s Civil War years, including a letter sending John Hay, the personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, a manuscript copy of “O Captain, My Captain!” Additional letters address various aspects of the production of
Leaves of Grass
, the most notable being an extensive correspondence surrounding the
Deathbed Edition
, gathered by Whitman’s friend Horace Traubel, and reproduced here for the first time. Most significantly, this volume at last incorporates Whitman’s early letters to Abraham Paul Leech, first published by Arthur Golden in
American Literature
in 1986. The revelations contained in these letters must be considered among the most important discoveries about Whitman’s life made during the last half of the twentieth century.
Regardless of whether their significance is great or small, immediate or long-term, each new piece of Whitman’s correspondence returns us to a particular moment in his life and suggests the limitless directions that remain for Whitman scholarship.