When Oscar Wilde Visited Walt Whitman In Camden By by Henrik Eger, Ph.D. A different side of legendary Irish writer Oscar Wilde was recently on display at Walnut Street Theatre in a new play by Michael Whistler entitled Mickle Street. The play revolves around a little known piece of literary history — the period in which the 27-year-old writer traveled to Camden, New Jersey to seek the advice of Walt Whitman. In Mickle Street, we see Wilde’s wit evolve, but many of his words taste like young wine — a fledging writer struggling with his identity, convinced that he has already made it because of the many Americans who are attending his lectures, from New York and Philadelphia, all the way to Colorado — even though the press writes less than flattering reviews. Being associated with famous people was as much en vogue in the late 1800s as it is today. Mary, an Irish-Catholic widow, looks after Whitman. Whistler’s Mary has a fine eye for different layers of reality: “You know the paper says he lives ‘on beauty alone.’
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s READINGS IN THE AMERICAN 1950S (roughly alphabetical) Mario Savio, obituary Mario Savio's Pages compiled by anya@mail.hooked.net Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1963-64 - a narrative summary by David Burner Berkeley's archive of Free Speech Movement materials Mario Savio, 1988 speech Notes from the Savio memorial service, 12/8/96 "See Jane Run": A student fleeing from mounted police during an anti-war protest, c. 1970 (photograph captioned: "We're the people our parents warned us against. See Jane Run. Glossary of oft-used terms Literary Kicks Rossetti Archive Walt Whitman’s Civil War ‘Drum-Taps’, Complete After 150 Years “I intend to move heaven & earth to publish my ‘Drum-Taps’ as soon as I am able to go around,” Walt Whitman told his friend William O’Connor in 1864, after a mysterious illness, likely contracted from the hospital where he nursed soldiers, claimed his health for a time. The American Civil War was in its third year, and Leaves of Grass in its third edition. With his new book of Civil War poems, Whitman meant to advocate a re-union, a reconciliation, an end to the war, and a continuation of the spirit of democracy set in motion by his earlier work. He wanted Drum-Taps to “express in a poem…the pending action of this Time & Land we swim in…with the unprecedented anguish and suffering, the beautiful young men, in wholesale death & agony.” The following January, as the war neared its conclusion, Whitman wrote again to O’Connor, explaining that the now fairly completed Drum-Taps was “superior to Leaves of Grass — certainly more perfect as a work of art.’’
William Faulkner on the Web Use the “Faulkner Sites Only” option to search for resources within this site, The Mississippi Writers Page and selected other Faulkner-related Web sites. June 2013 2013 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference: “Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas” The 40th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will take place July 21-25, 2013 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. In addition to plenary lectures and panel presentations, the conference will feature guided daylong tours of North Mississippi, the Delta, and Memphis; sessions on “Teaching Faulkner” led by noted Faulkner scholars; and a reception at the University Museum honoring photographer Alain Desvergnes and his exhibition featuring his black-and-white photographs of the Oxford and Lafayette County area from the early 1960s, when Desvergnes taught photography at the University of Mississippi. Faulkner Society, E-mail discussion list information Faulkner dissertation on ‘War and History’ available
Perseus Digital Library The Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site American Literature Sites American Literature Sites General Paul P.Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature Pages. This major site includes extensive bibliographies of American authors as well as study questions about their major works.history; its SiteScene reviews are extensive and thorough. Literary Resources on the Net. Jack Lynch maintains this excellent site at Rutgers; the entries are current, searchable, and annotated. General Literature Sites Victorian Web. Books Online Note: Because of copyright restrictions, only works published prior to 1923 and those made available by the copyright holder are available for free online. Google Books. Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Primary Sources Cornell University's Making of America site is an extensive, searchable collection of major periodicals of the nineteenth century. Miscellaneous Resources
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Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events, 1620-1920 Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920 This timeline provides a short chronology of events in American history and literature. It is linked to course pages and bibliographies as well as to a set of more general linked resources: pages on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites. Each author page contains a picture (if available), a bibliography (if available), links to major sites about the author, and links to works online.