The Americanness of Walt Whitman / 
edited with an introduction by Leo Marx. 
 - 136 pages ;  24 cm 
 - Problems in American civilization; readings selected by the Dept. of American Studies, Amherst College .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- Poetry in a democratic society / Alexis de Tocqueville -- From Preface to Leaves of grass (1855) / Walt Whitman -- The poetry of democracy / Edward Dowden -- The soul of the tramp / John Jay Chapman -- The poetry of barbarism / George Santayana -- The precipitant / Van Wyck Brooks -- Whitman, the American teacher / D.H. Lawrence -- The new Adam / R.W.B. Lewis -- Some lines from Whitman / Randal Jarrell -- Whitman and the comic spirit / Richard Chase. 
<br/><br/> Bound in black paper wrappers, with text printed in red and black on three white sections on front cover. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>60052211  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Criticism and interpretation
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National characteristics, American, in literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3238  / .A44 1967