Walt Whitman: An Innovator in Poetry

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."Walt WhitmanThe present book is devoted to Walt Whitman’s originality in matter and manner containing form, language and content. It shows how Whitman's poetic utterances reveal his innovations. In addition to an introductory chapter which introduces Whitman concerning his life, Whitman's inventive features in form, style, language and content are discussed in three main chapters in this book. In the fifth chapter, also, Whitman's influence on the poets after him is discussed. It explains how Whitman is not limited to any special time.