{"title":"Walt Whitman. Lebenseiche, moosbehangen. Live Oak, with Moss, translated and edited by Heinrich Detering.","authors":"Walter Grünzweig","doi":"10.17077/0737-0679.31121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/0737-0679.31121","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Walt Whitman, Lebenseiche, moosbehangen. Live Oak, with Moss, translated and edited by Heinrich Detering.","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42885076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Glorious Times for Newspaper Editors and Correspondents”: Whitman at the New Orleans Daily Crescent, 1848-1849","authors":"Stefan Schöberlein, Zachary M Turpin","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2414","url":null,"abstract":"We announce with true pleasure the arrival of the Steyermarkische (so called from the Austrian dependency whence they come) corps of musicians, already mentioned, some days past, in our columns. This fine band consists of eighteen performers; each a perfect master of the instrument on which he plays. . . . When you visit the performances of the members of this band, you are struck, at the very beginning, with the signs they show of superior taste—even before you discover, as you will when the first three or four notes are played, their surpassing genius. You see enter some eighteen gentlemen , quiet and at ease in their manners, dressed in plain black; no airs, no clap-trap, none of the little arts so usual in most public performers. The leader steps forward quietly and modestly with an obeisance, not that of the dancing master. He is extremely youthful, and in his beauty you see the intellectual mingling of genius. No flourishing of a wand by the white-gloved hand, no pretension, no melo-dramatic waiting and coquetting, offends you, as in so many other cases. You are saved even the discordant tuning of instru-ments. 33 There are some people in this world of inhabited creation that supposed—vainly suppose— that if children—little immortals in jackets and trowsers—only have a plenty of bread and meat wherewith to cram their stomachs, and a trifle of clothing withal, that the grand totality of parental duty, in all its length and breadth and importance, is abundantly fulfilled. As for the rest—why, the streets and the highways can open wide their arms and receive them. 73","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49465850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mark Edmundson. Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy.","authors":"Jerome M. Loving","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2418","url":null,"abstract":"According to Mark Edmundson, Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is an onanistic dream in which the poet, or speaker of this vision, is, among other things, angry at the sun. Although masturbation is his “characteristic sexual mode,” Whitman is distressed “by the fact that some, or even all, of the figures he’s fantasizing about . . . are male” (64-65). Later (110) Edmundson says he is “agnostic” on the question of Whitman’s alleged homosexuality. Whitman’s imagined “fight for democracy” in this volume—intended for “general readers”—centers upon his autoerotic encounter of Self and Soul and a “duel with the sun” (“There are millions of suns left”), which represents the patriarchal or aristocratic forces that continue to threaten the fragile democracy on the verge of civil war. The vernacular “you” in the poem is no longer primarily the reader, or “divine average,” but “another part of Walt himself” (17). The sun and the grass serve in this rather private, if not “New Critical,” reading of Leaves of Grass as the age-old opponents in the people’s war against kings and aristocracy. In this fight, Whitman was responding to what Emerson called for in his essays: “a vision of what being a democratic man or woman felt like at its best, day to day, moment to moment” (3). It seems that Thoreau might be the preferred Transcendentalist to get down in the dirt with Whitman and his omnibus drivers, not Emerson, who allegedly complained of the “fire-engine” society he encountered when Whitman took him to a restaurant in New York City at the end of 1855. Indeed, for all the Emerson that Edmundson calls upon in this monograph on Whitman, he seems oblivious to the Transcendentalist or logocentric context for “Song of Myself” and in fact all of Leaves of Grass. As we know and as Edmundson acknowledges, Whitman claimed that he was “simmering, simmering, simmering,” and that Emerson—along with opera and the King James version of the Bible—“brought [him] to a boil” (5). And just what was it that turned this mediocre poet/journalist/fiction writer (whose humble beginnings Edmundson exaggerates, ignoring the importance of Whitman’s having edited the Brooklyn Eagle from 1846 to 1848) into America’s greatest poet? It was the Emersonian idea that everybody and everything was REVIEWS WWQR Vol. 39 No. 1 (Summer 2021)","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43738789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was Whitman “Betrayed” in Brazil?: Geir Campos, Ana Cristina Cesar, and the 1983 Chopping Up of Leaves of Grass","authors":"Patrícia Anzini","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42518415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Face, the Body, the Voice”","authors":"A. C. César","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45565621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zachary Turpin and Matt Miller, eds. Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman’s Early Notebooks and Fragments.","authors":"B. Bair","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45699994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix: A Sampling of New Orleans Crescent “Northern Correspondence” from “Manahatta”/“Manhattan”","authors":"W. Whitman","doi":"10.13008/0737-0679.2415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42233,"journal":{"name":"WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66479940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}