American bards
Subtitle: Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet
By: by Edward Whitley.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780807834213
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Appreciation -- United States; Whitfield, James Monroe, -- 1822-1871; Snow, Eliza R. -- 1804-1887; Ridge, John Rollin, -- 1827-1867; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Influence; National characteristics, American, in literature; Poets, American -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: James M. Whitfield:  the poet of slaves; title: Eliza R. Snow:  poet of a new American religion; title: John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird):  the first white aboriginal; title: Walt Whitman:  an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.