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Cutler, Edward S. "Literary Modernity and the Problem of a National Literature: Understanding William Dean Howells' Critique of Walt Whitman." American Literary Realism. 38.2 (2006): 132-144.
Type: journal ; Genre: history, literary criticism
Abstract
William Dean Howells, who met Walt Whitman briefly at Pfaff's, wrote a number of reviews of Whitman's work between 1860 and 1909. These reviews not only display a sophisticated understanding of the many aspects of the poet's career--from his self promotion to his desire to create a uniquely national poetics--but they also give insight into Howells' own sense of what an emerging modernist aesthetic practice should be.
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- Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Jun. 1895: 62-74. [more about this work]
