"Damn 'em, God bless 'em!": Whitman and Traubel on the Makers of Books.
This essay discusses the difficulty of bookmaking, indexing and book printing. It focuses on Walt Whitman's relations to publishers including David McKay, George Ferguson and Frederick Oldach. Horace Traubel reveals that Whitman is strict on punctuation, abbreviation and general arrangement. Whitman...
| Publicado en: | Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Vol. 24; no. 2/3; pp. 140 - 157 |
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University of Iowa
Fall/2006/Winter2007
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| Sumario: | This essay discusses the difficulty of bookmaking, indexing and book printing. It focuses on Walt Whitman's relations to publishers including David McKay, George Ferguson and Frederick Oldach. Horace Traubel reveals that Whitman is strict on punctuation, abbreviation and general arrangement. Whitman declares that he sometimes find himself more interested in bookmaking than in book writing. Whitman's notion of a good looking page and his reaction to McKay's revision of his book is also discussed. |
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