Walt Whitman & the World - The Walt Whitman Archive

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University oflowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Copyright © 1995 by the University of Iowa Press Walt Whitman and the world/ edited by
All rights reserved Gay Wilson Allen and Ed Folsom.
Printed in the United States of America p. em.
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Design by Richard Hendel
ISBN 0-87745-497-3 (cloth),
No part of this book may be reproduced or used ISBN o-87745-498-1 (paper)
in any form or by any means, electronic or 1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892-Criticism
mechanical, including photocopying and and interpretation-History. 2. Whitman,
recording, without permission in writing from Walt, 1819-1892-Appreciation-Foreign
the publisher. countries. 3. American literature
Appreciation-Foreign countries.
Printed on acid-free paper
4· National characteristics in literature.
I. Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-1995.
II. Folsom, Ed, 1947-
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GAY WILSON ALLEN, 1903-1995
Gay Wilson Allen died while this book was in press.
The contributors to Walt Whitman and the World join me
in dedicating this, his last book, to him. For half a century,
he towered above the field of Whitman studies and was a
friend and mentor to hundreds of scholars worldwide.
His generosity of spirit was legendary. He will be missed.
He had been anxious to see this book appear; it was his
labor oflove during his final years. Well, Gay, now that
you've set out on your cosmic journey, the ultimate open
road, here it is. This book is not only by you, it's for you.
Allons!
Ed Folsom
August 7, 1995

Contents
Acknowledgments, xi
INTRODUCTION: "Salut au Monde!" Ed Folsom and Gay Wilson Allen, 1
WHITMAN IN THE BRITISH ISLES. M. Wynn Thomas, 11
Charles Ollier (1856), 20
Anonymous Review (1856), 21
Edmund Ollier (?) (1856), 23
Matthew Arnold (1866), 25
William Michael Rossetti (1868), 25
Anne Gilchrist (1870), 27
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1872), 29
George Saintsbury (1874), 30
Edward Dowden (1878), 32
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1882), 33
John Robertson (1884), 36
John Robertson [epigraphs] (1884), 37
Ernest Rhys (1885), 38
Roden Noel (1886), 38
Anonymous Review (1886), 39
Havelock Ellis (1890), 40
R. W. Raper (1890), 41
Pauline W. Roose (1892), 42
W. B. Yeats (1892, 1894), 43
John Addington Symonds (1893), 44
Henry Salt (1894), 46
Edmund Gosse (1896), 47
J. A. MacCulloch (1899), 48
G. K. Chesterton (1904), 49
W. T. Hawkins (1906), so
E. M. Forster (1911), 51
D. H. Lawrence (1913), 52
Basil de Selincourt (1914), 53
P. Mansell Jones (1914), 55
John Cowper Powys (1915), 56
Padraic Colum (1919), 57
Hugh l'Anson Faussett (1942), 59
V. S. Pritchett (1946), 59
J. Middleton Murry (1955), 61
David Daiches (1956), 62
W. H. Auden (1963), 63
Anthony Burgess (1968), 64
Denis Donoghue (1975), 65
Geoffrey Grigson (1982), 66
Charles Tomlinson (1984), 67
John Bayley (1984), 67
Charles Tomlinson (1986), 68
Tom Paulin (1991), 69
WHITMAN IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA. fernando Alegria, 71
Jose Marti (1887), 96
Ruben Dario (1890), 106
Cebria Montoliu (1909), 107
Miguel de Unamuno (1930), 113
Le6n Felipe (1941), 115
Pablo Neruda (1954), 118
Jorge Luis Borges (1966), 126
Jorge Guillen (1971), 127
WHITMAN IN BRAZIL. Maria Clara Bonetti Para, 128
Gilberto Freire (1948), 137
WHITMAN IN PORTUGAL. Roger Asselineau and Susan M. Brown, 147
Fernando Pessoa (1915), 154
WHITMAN IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES. Walter Grunzweig, 160
Ferdinand Freiligrath (1868), 172
Johannes Schlaf (1892), 176
Hermann Hesse (1904), 186
Eduard Bertz (1905-1922), 187
Gustav Landauer (1907), 189
Hermann Bahr (1919), 193
Thomas Mann (1922), 201
Hans Reisiger (1922), 202
Christian Morgenstern (1910), 209
Arthur Drey (1911), 211
GustavGamper (1919), 212
Hans Reinhart (1919), 213
Carl Albert Lange (1926), 214
Kurt Tucholsky (1925), 215
Johannes R. Becher (1945), 217
Gabriele Eckart (1971), 218
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Jurgen Wellbrock (1976), 220
Hans Sahl (1962), 222
Roland Kluge (1984), 224
RolfSchwendter (1990), 226
WHITMAN IN THE NETHERLANDS. Gay Wilson Allen, 231
WHITMAN IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Roger Asselineau, 233
Valery Larbaud (1918), 245
Jean Catel (1929), 256
Jules Romains (1972),266
WHITMAN IN ITALY. Roger Asselineau, 268
Giovanni Papini (1908), 274
Cesare Pavese (1951), 274
WHITMAN IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA. Arthur Golden, Marija Golden,
and Igor Maver, 282
WHITMAN IN POLAND. F. Lyra, 295
WHITMAN IN RUSSIA. Stephen Stepanchev, 300
Anonymous Review (1914), 313
D. S. Mirsky (1935), 320
Kornei I. Chukovsky (1969), 333
Maurice Mendelson (1976), 336
WHITMAN IN SWEDEN. CarlL. Anderson, 339
Artur Lundkvist (1929), 351
Artur Lundkvist (1976), 353
WHITMAN IN DENMARK AND NORWAY. Gay Wilson Allen, 357
Knut Hamsun (1889), 362
Johannes V. Jensen (1919), 369
Kjell Krogvig (1948), 372
Sigmund Skard (1973), 377
WHITMAN IN FINLAND. Niilo Peltola, 381
WHITMAN IN ISRAEL. Ezra Greenspan, 386
WHITMAN IN INDIA. V. K. Chari, 396
Contents [ ix ]
WHITMAN IN CHINA. Guiyou Huang, 406
Li Yeguang (1981), 422
Li Yeguang (1988), 425
WHITMAN IN JAPAN. Takashi Kodaira and Alfred H. Marks, 429
Selected Bibliographies, 437
Notes on Contributors, 467
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