THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS : Volume : WHITMAN : A STUDY

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Text/As New w/a whisper of margin discoloration. Riverby Edition. Cloth boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF. Upper text edge in gilt. Frontis: Walt Whitman; and 4 other illustrations, all under tissue guard. DJ/None. 1904. Volume 10 of 23. Preeminent nature writer John Burroughs (1837 - 1921) was a friend of Walt Whitman (1819 -1892) and who, with Whitman's assistance, pubblished Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet & Person (1873). Contents: Preliminary remarks precedes: 1, Biographical & Personal; 2, His Ruling Ideas & Aims; 3, His Self-Reliance; 4, His Relation to Art & Literature; 5, His Relation to Life & Morals; 6, His Relation to Culture; 7, His Relation to his Country & His Times; 8, His Relation to Science; 9, His Relation to Religion; and, 10, A Final Word. Burroughs concludes, "I look on Whitman as the one mountain thus far in our literary landscape", changing "the very climate, of our literature" and adding "much needed ruggedness, breadth, audacity, independence, and the elements of primal strength and health.". N° de ref. del artículo 010359

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