Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

12
“I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

description

Formal portraits of 19th-century Dead White Males serve as a contrast to the image Walt Whitman cultivated in his portrait for the first edition of Leaves of Grass.

Transcript of Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Page 1: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

“I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Page 2: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

The young William Cullen Bryant

Page 3: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Page 4: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Page 5: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Page 6: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Edgar Allan Poe

Page 7: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

James Russell Lowell

Page 8: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Henry David Thoreau

Page 9: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Hermann Melville

Page 10: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Page 11: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

John Greenleaf Whittier

Page 12: Walt Whitman: A Context for the 1855 Frontispiece

“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos…”