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Article: Walt Whitman & the Irish. .(Book Review)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Joann P. Krieg, Walt Whitman & the Irish. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. xv 273 pages. Stg.[pounds sterling]16.95 (Paperback).
Joann Krieg's book attempts to locate Walt Whitman within an Irish and Irish-American cultural context. Krieg places the poet among a network of republican sympathizers on both sides of the Atlantic; she writes in detail of the impact of the Civil War on Irish Americans; and offers a number of portraits of Whitman's admirers in Irish literary circles (Wilde, Stoker, Dowden, Lady Gregory). The book is overflowing with dates and facts, to the extent that at times Whitman himself gets lost in the contextual mire. Few attempts are ...