Ed Folsom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ed Folsom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ed |
| FAMILY NAME | Folsom |
| SIGNATURE | FOLSOM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was
This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. Merwin about Walt Whitman. Critics have long assumed that Merwin had a primarily negative attitude toward Whitman’s poetry, viewing him as a spokesperson for the U.S.’s embrace of manifest destiny and its catastrophic ecological impact. Some of Merwin’s dismissive attitude toward Whitman was inherited from two of Merwin’s acknowledged poetic mentors, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, …
Transcendental Poetics
This article, mainly, analyses the poetic works of the Transcendentalists. Most of them have been categorized as essayists or nonfiction writers. Poetry was to them the occasional rather than the chief medium of expression. It was said that Transcendentalist poetry was too philosophical, not written to please, but to convince. However, this poetry often seemed as a kind of bardic or homiletic wisdom literature. The article also examines the works…
Lucifer and Ethiopia
It would perhaps be nice if Walt Whitman, our great poet of an democracy, had possessed a spotless attitude toward e United States and if he had clearly and unambiguously espoused the equality of all individuals, regardless of race.1 But Whitman was a poet embedded in his times, and his times-not unlike our own-were a period of intense disagreement about the significance and importance of racial difference. His career demonstrates his struggle wi…
Walt Whitman's Native Representations
Walt Whitman's Native Representations
Walt Whitman
In 1992, the year of the hundredth anniversary of Walt Whitman's death, a major gathering of international scholars took place at the University of Iowa. Over 150 participants heard papers by 20 of the world's most eminent critics of Whitman. Three generations of scholars offered new essays that brilliantly tracked the course of past and present Whitman scholarship. So significant was this historic celebration of the great American poet that the …
Walt Whitman's Native Representations
Walt Whitman
The Columbia History of American Poetry
Walt Whitman and the American Reader
Leaves of Grass, Junior
Whitman's Drama of Consensus
Whitman's Drama of Consensus
Walt Whitman and the American Reader
Leaves of Grass, Junior
Walt Whitman
The Columbia History of American Poetry
Walt Whitman's Native Representations
Walt Whitman
In 1992, the year of the hundredth anniversary of Walt Whitman's death, a major gathering of international scholars took place at the University of Iowa. Over 150 participants heard papers by 20 of the world's most eminent critics of Whitman. Three generations of scholars offered new essays that brilliantly tracked the course of past and present Whitman scholarship. So significant was this historic celebration of the great American poet that the …
Walt Whitman's Native Representations
Walt Whitman's Native Representations
Lucifer and Ethiopia
It would perhaps be nice if Walt Whitman, our great poet of an democracy, had possessed a spotless attitude toward e United States and if he had clearly and unambiguously espoused the equality of all individuals, regardless of race.1 But Whitman was a poet embedded in his times, and his times-not unlike our own-were a period of intense disagreement about the significance and importance of racial difference. His career demonstrates his struggle wi…
Transcendental Poetics
This article, mainly, analyses the poetic works of the Transcendentalists. Most of them have been categorized as essayists or nonfiction writers. Poetry was to them the occasional rather than the chief medium of expression. It was said that Transcendentalist poetry was too philosophical, not written to please, but to convince. However, this poetry often seemed as a kind of bardic or homiletic wisdom literature. The article also examines the works…
W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was
This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. Merwin about Walt Whitman. Critics have long assumed that Merwin had a primarily negative attitude toward Whitman’s poetry, viewing him as a spokesperson for the U.S.’s embrace of manifest destiny and its catastrophic ecological impact. Some of Merwin’s dismissive attitude toward Whitman was inherited from two of Merwin’s acknowledged poetic mentors, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, …
Art (11 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (10 works) · Literature (5 works) · History (4 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Compromise (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetics (2 works)