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Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America's greatest poets.

• Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students
• Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman's work, and of the experimental nature of his writing
• Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography

Walt Whitman fully absorbed 19th-century cultural life, both reflecting and transfiguring it through his poetry and prose. This encyclopaedia gathers information on Whitman from a variety of sources, and presents more than 750 entries in an A-Z format. Over 200 contributions include short entries, and longer in-depth essays. An appendix of Whitman's ancestry and a chronology is also included.