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Walt Whitman A Gay Life Hardcover Walt Whitman A Gay Life Gary Schmidgall on FREE shipping on qualifying offers A revealing biography of the renowned American poet explores the relationships Whitman had with his male friends Walt Whitman A Gay Life Gary Schmidgall Google Books Walt Whitman A Gay Life is the first biography to illuminate the vital connection between Whitmans life as a homosexual and his legacy as a landmark literary artist Here is the story of his encounter with the young Oscar Wilde one of the most intriguing meetings of minds in literary history Walt Whitman A Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall Goodreads Gary Schmidgall is a professor of English at Hunter College the City University of New York and the editor of Intimate with Walt Selections from Whitmans Conversations with Horace Traubel 18881892 Iowa 2001 His other Whitman books are Walt Whitman A Gay Life and Walt Whitman Selected Poems 18551892 Decoding Walt Whitmans Homoerotic Writings Biographer More than 100 years after his death the exuberantly gay in all senses of the word Walt Whitman finally has a biographer who puts the poets homosexuality where the poet himself placed it Schmidgall Gary Walt Whitman A Gay Life review century presumptions and expectations of what it means to be gay onto Whitmans nineteenthcentury corpus The resulta sort of retrogay carica tureis a poor portrait of Walt Whitman as a man who loved men With a nod to the poem By Blue Ontarios Shore the book is largely pre Was Walt Whitman gay New textbook rules spark LGBTQ Walt Whitman never publicly addressed his sexual orientation in his poems essays or lectures He lived from 1819 to 1892 a time when “gay” meant little more than “happy” Biographical Walt Whitman – Gender and Sexuality Student Services Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892 American poet During the 1950s biographer Gay Wilson Allen established Whitman as the philopietistic poet for what Henry Luce head of the TimeLife conglomerate called the ‘American Century’ University of Illinois Springfield One University Plaza Springfield Illinois 627035407 217 Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Just the Gay Parts Walt Whitmans epic poem Song of Myself is a lot quicker and more fun to read when you just read the homoerotic parts Walt Whitman Biography Facts Early life Walt Whitman was born into a family that settled in North America in the first half of the 17th century His ancestry was typical of the region his mother Louisa Van Velsor was Dutch and his father Walter Whitman was of English descent O Me O Life by Walt Whitman Poetry Foundation Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latterday successor to Homer Virgil Dante and Shakespeare In Leaves of Grass 1855 18912 he celebrated democracy nature love and friendship This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul and found beauty
