ABSTRACT

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|2 pages

Emerson's letter to Whitman

1855

chapter 2|1 pages

The first notice

1855

chapter 3|4 pages

Charles Eliot Norton's review

1855

chapter 4|3 pages

Moncure Conway visits Whitman

1855

chapter 5|1 pages

Norton and Lowell disagree

1855

chapter 6|2 pages

Rufus W. Griswold on Whitman

1855

chapter 7|15 pages

Whitman's anonymous self-reviews

1855–6

chapter 8|3 pages

Edward Everett Hale on Whitman

1856

chapter 9|3 pages

Extracts from an unsigned notice

1856

chapter 10|6 pages

An English reaction

1856

chapter 11|1 pages

An American echo

1856

chapter 12|3 pages

‘Impious and obscene'

1856

chapter 13|3 pages

Bronson Alcott on Whitman

1856

chapter 14|1 pages

Thoreau on Whitman

1856

chapter 16|2 pages

A favourable English reaction

1856

chapter 17|5 pages

‘His style is everywhere graphic'

1856

chapter 18|3 pages

‘Full of beauties and blemishes'

1856

chapter 19|3 pages

Lincoln and Leaves of Grass 1857 (?)

1857

chapter 20|3 pages

‘A wild Tupper of the West'

1857

chapter 21|3 pages

Praise and blame

1857

chapter 22|2 pages

‘It is the healthiest book, morally'

1859

chapter 23|1 pages

Three views of 1860

chapter 24|2 pages

‘The primordial music of nature'

1860

chapter 25|1 pages

More puzzling than Swedenborg

1860

chapter 27|5 pages

‘A curious warble ‘?

1860

chapter 28|5 pages

Henry James on Whitman

1865

chapter 29|11 pages

William Douglas O'Connor on Whitman

1866

chapter 30|5 pages

Rossetti's London edition

1868

chapter 31|3 pages

Review of the London edition

1868

chapter 32|3 pages

Swinburne on Whitman

1868

chapter 33|5 pages

Anne Gilchrist on Whitman

1870

chapter 34|7 pages

Edward Dowden on Whitman

1871

chapter 36|3 pages

A belated appreciation

1873

chapter 37|1 pages

Saintsbury on Whitman

1874

chapter 38|23 pages

Peter Bayne on Whitman

1875

chapter 39|1 pages

Lanier on Whitman

1878

chapter 40|2 pages

Some views of the 1880s

chapter 41|4 pages

‘Caviare to the multitude'

1881

chapter 43|5 pages

A writer of almost insane violence

1882

chapter 44|4 pages

Gerard Manley Hopkins on Whitman

1882

chapter 45|9 pages

Swinburne on Whitmania

1887

chapter 46|12 pages

Knut Hamsun on Whitman

1889

chapter 47|4 pages

Harriet Monroe on Whitman

1892

chapter 48|6 pages

John Addington Symonds on Whitman

1893

chapter 49|10 pages

T. W. Rolleston on Whitman

1893

chapter 50|3 pages

William James on Whitman

1895

chapter 51|3 pages

Max Nordau on Whitman

1895

chapter 52|2 pages

William Dean Howells on Whitman

1895

chapter 53|4 pages

John Burroughs on Whitman

1896

chapter 54|8 pages

William Sloane Kennedy on Whitman

1896

chapter 55|1 pages

Henry James on Whitman

1898

chapter 56|1 pages

John Jay Chapman on Whitman

1898

chapter 57|2 pages

Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Whitman

1899

chapter 58|7 pages

Santayana on Whitman

1900

chapter 59|14 pages

Basil de Selincourt on Whitman

1914