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So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050401
Author:Selby, Nick

So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death. By HAROLD ASPIZ. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 2004. xii + 294 pp. $42-50. ISBN 08173-1377-x.

The sophisticated ease of Harold Aspiz's prose belies the scope and ambition of this book. In a manner that is never less than elegant, Aspiz calmly and compassionately attempts to realign our ways of thinking about Whitman the poet and the myths we hold about him. This book is a major addition to Whitman scholarship, however understated its aim. In fact, this is the first book-length study to examine Whitman's lifelong ...

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