| Titre | Whitman, Williams, Ginsberg : histoire d'une filiation | |
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| Auteur | Jacqueline Saunier-Ollier | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 5, avril 1978 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | IV - Prospects |
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| Page | 16 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
The kinship between Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg has often been mentioned. But the complex relationship between these three great poets has never been fully analyzed. This essay does not claim to be an exhaustive study of what could fill up the pages of a book. It is only an attempt to disentangle the complicated net of ties that bind the three men. Williams discovered his true self through Leaves of Grass, but he soon began battling against it in his lifelong search for an orderly poetic form. Although Whitman's influence on him was continuous it was only at the end of his life that he surrendered fully to his Whitmanesque bent. This was made possible through the mediation of an « angelheaded hipster » from Paterson, whom the doctor-poet had himself introduced to Leaves of Grass and who, in return, unknowingly helped his mentor achieve his own liberation and showed himself, Allen Ginsberg, to be the true son of Whitman. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1978_num_5_1_996 |
