Whitman and the Irish

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Label

Whitman and the Irish

Statement of responsibility

Joann P. Krieg

Title variation

Whitman & the Irish

Creator

• Krieg, Joann P

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
• trueElectronic books
• trueIreland -- Biography
• trueIrish Americans -- Biography
• Irlande -- Biographies
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
• truePoets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
• Poètes américains -- 19e siècle -- Biographies
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Amis et relations
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Et l'Irlande
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Et les États-Unis
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge | Ireland
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge | United States
• true Unknown Label
• Américains d'origine irlandaise -- Biographies

Genre

• Electronic books
• truePoetry
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first edition of Leaves of Grass was published, the Irish made up one of the largest immigrant populations in New York City and, as such, maintained a cultural identity of their own. All of this "Irishnesso swirled about Whitman as he trod the streets of his Mannahatta, ultimately becoming part of him and his poetry

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N$T

Characteristic

unknown

Dewey number

• 811/.3
• B

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Series statement

eBooks from EBSCOhost