The Shaping of the American Character
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16307089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Perry Miller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 435 |
| Publication date | 1955-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/362405 |
| OpenAlex | W2315513650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
IN 1867 Walt Whitman brought out a revision of Leaves of Grass. He was constantly revising; this was the fourth version. The first had been in 1855, the second in 1856, the third in 1860. Virtually all approved and respectable critics of the time who even bothered to consider Whitman were hostile; they believed a that could be so recklessly revised to be obviously no poetry at all. Nowadays there are many who regard him as our greatest poet; when Lucien Price asked Alfred North Whitehead what, if anything, original and distinctively American this country has produced, the philosopher answered without hesitation, Whitman. I suspect that Whitman, at this moment, is not so popular as he was thirty years ago; if I am right, then this is a sign of the times, one which I must consider ominous. But be that as it may
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Geometry · Mathematics · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
| Citation span | 1957 - 1988 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |