Walt Whitman's pose
By: [by] Esther Shephard.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Sand, George, 1804-1876
Description: An exploration of Walt Whitman and his work.
Notes: "The source of Leaves of grass is, in spite of all of Walt Whitman's protestations to the contrary, in the fragment of a book, the epilogue of a French novel. The novel is The Countess of Rudolstadt, by George Sand."--p. 140.
Book three, "The pattern", is a reprint of "The Countess of Rudolstadt; by George Sand. <Sequel to 'Consuelo'.> ... vol. II. Translated by Francis G. Shaw. Boston W. D. Ticknor and company, 1847" (p. 256-302)
"First edition."
Table of contents: title: book 1. The paradox of Walt Whitman.; title: book 2. The thread of Ariadne (the record of a search); title: book 3. The pattern.; title: book 4. "In character" (Whitman and Emerson); title: Authorities and additional documents (p. 399-439)