Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner
Whitman
by Emory Holloway
Summary
Emory Holloway offers an interpretive biography of Walt Whitman, the poet of Leaves of Grass, examining the man behind the sweeping American verse. Drawing on careful research into Whitman's life and writings, the book probes his character, contradictions, and democratic vision. It matters as a serious scholarly attempt to understand one of the central figures in American poetry.
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Historical Context & Significance
Emory Holloway was a Whitman scholar who had earlier recovered and edited uncollected writings by the poet.