So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

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So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death is written by Harold Aspiz and published by University of Alabama Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 081731377X (ISBN 10) and 9780817313777 (ISBN 13).

Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.