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"Whitman & Dickinson is the first collection to bring together original essays by European and North American scholars directly linking the poetry and ideas of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. The essays present intersections between these great figures across several fields of study, rehearsing well-established topics from new perspectives, opening entirely new areas of investigation, and providing new information about Whitman's and Dickinson's lives, work, and reception. Essays included in this book cover the topics of mentoring influence on each poet, religion, the Civil War, phenomenology, the environment, humor, poetic structures of language, and Whitman's and Dickinson's twentieth- and twenty-first-century reception--including prolonged engagement with Adrienne Rich's response to this "strange uncoupled couple" of poets who stand at the beginning of an American national poetic. Contributors Include: Marina Camboni, Andrew Dorkin, Vincent Dussol, Betsy Erkkila, Ed Folsom, Christine Gerhardt, Jay Grossman, Jennifer Leader, Marianne Noble, Cecile Roudeau, Shira Wolosky"-- Machine generated contents note:Rethinking the (Non) Convergence of Dickinson and Whitman: The Origins of American Poetry as We Know It /ED Folsom --"Sickly Abstractions" and the Poetic Concrete: Whitman's and Dickinson's Battlefields of War /Cecile Roudeau --DickinsonShira Wolosky --"No Man Saw Awe" / "In the Talk of ... God ... He Is Silent": (Not) Seeing and (Not) Saying the Numinous in Dickinson and Whitman /Jennifer Leader --Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact in Whitman and Dickinson /Marianne Noble --"We Must Travel Abreast with Nature, if We Want to Understand Her": Place and Mobility in Dickinson's and Whitman's Environmental Poetry /Christine Gerhardt --Hyperbole and Humor in Whitman and Dickinson /Cristanne Miller --Radical Imaginaries: Crossing Over with Whitman and Dickinson /Betsy Erkkila --Queer Contingencies of Canonicity: Dickinson, Whitman, Jewett, Matthiessen /Jay Grossman --Whitman, Dickinson, and Their Legacy of Lists and "It's /Vincent Dussol --"Beginners": Rereading Whitman and Dickinson through Rich's Lens /Marina Camboni.
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