James Huneker on Whitman: A Newly Discovered Essay
1966; Duke University Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2923810
ISSN1527-2117
Autores Tópico(s)Poetry Analysis and Criticism
ResumoT HAVE PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED the relationship between Walt Whitman and one of his most sophisticated earlier American critics, James Gibbons Huneker, indicating the gist of Huneker's criticism of the poet.' I pointed out that though Huneker claimed he had written Whitman's obituary for the New York Home Journal, a long search had failed to uncover it.2 But a passage in the recently published fifth volume of With Walt Whitman in Camden-a passage which also contains Whitman's only recorded comment on Huneker-has disclosed the existence of a heretofore unknown article by Huneker on Whitman which was published in the Home journal. Under the date of Saturday, June i, I889, Horace Traubel wrote:
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