| SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry. In 11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. 2020. |
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@proceedings{1729625,
author = {Smith, Jeffrey Alan},
booktitle = {11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University},
keywords = {Walt Whitman; Jack Engle; Leaves of Grass; history of news; nineteenth century journalism},
language = {eng},
title = {Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry},
url = {https://anglistika.phil.muni.cz/brno2020},
year = {2020}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 1729625
AU - Smith, Jeffrey Alan
PY - 2020
TI - Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry
KW - Walt Whitman
KW - Jack Engle
KW - Leaves of Grass
KW - history of news
KW - nineteenth century journalism
UR - https://anglistika.phil.muni.cz/brno2020
N2 - One of the lingering questions in Whitman scholarship is how exactly Walt Whitman made his surprising and fairly sudden leap from journalist of little note to groundbreaking poet. The recent rediscov ery of a lost Whitman novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle , dating from the years of that transition, offers a new clue: a chapter apparently based on Whitman’s real life habit of vacating his newspaper office to wander in cemeteries making notes of to mbstone inscriptions. This paper will suggest various ways in which this peculiar hobby represents a rehearsal for the kinds of poetic imagining that would soon find expression in Leaves of Grass . In bringing to life the randomly juxtaposed stories suggest ed by grave memorials, Whitman the churchyard rambler was practicing new ways of receiving and processing information, a new method of reading for a world of “perpetually flowing” news and, from this, a remodeling of poetry as a higher and more “vivified” style of reporting.
ER -
SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry. In \textit{11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : ''Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions'', 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University}. 2020.
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