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Gay Wilson Allen • 33 Items / 7 Books, 1 Article, 25 Reviews
The Solitary Singer (1955)
by Gay Wilson Allen
A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman
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Published Reviews
  1. Books
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    Enigma (Review)
    Louise Bogan
    The Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen
    1. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    The New Yorker, February 26, 1955, pp. 98-99
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    The Good, Gray Poet (Review)
    Floyd Stovall
    The Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen
    1. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    The Saturday Review, February 5, 1955, p. 9
  3. Books and Comment
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    Walt Whitman: "Garrulous to the Very Last" (2 Reviews)
    Irving Howe
    The Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen
    1. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    2. Leaves of Grass---One Hundred Years After by Milton Hindus
    The New Republic, March 28, 1955, pp. 17-20
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    Whitman and His Critics (4 Reviews)
    Seymour Krim
    Leaves of Grass---One Hundred Years After, by Milton Hindus
    1. Leaves of Grass---One Hundred Years After by Milton Hindus
    2. Walt Whitman's Concept of the American Common Man by Leadie M. Clark
    3. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    4. Walt Whitman Reconsidered by Richard V. Chase
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1956, pp. 134-140
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    The Permanence of Walt Whitman (4 Reviews)
    Sidney Alexander
    The Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen
    1. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    2. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    3. The Portable Walt Whitman by Mark Van Doren and Walt Whitman
    4. The Whitman Reader by Maxwell Geismar and Walt Whitman
    The Reporter, May 19, 1955, pp. 43-45
  6. Books
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    Whitman's Centennial (7 Reviews)
    John R. Willingham
    The Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen
    1. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    2. Walt Whitman Abroad by Gay Wilson Allen
    3. Leaves of Grass---One Hundred Years After by Milton Hindus
    4. Walt Whitman Reconsidered by Richard V. Chase
    5. The Whitman Reader by Maxwell Geismar and Walt Whitman
    6. Walt Whitman, Poet of American Democracy by Samuel Sillen and Walt Whitman
    7. Walt Whitman
    The Nation, May 14, 1955, pp. 426-427
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    Brief Comments (18 Reviews)
    Nineteen outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. Politics in America by D.W. Brogan
    2. Freedom Limited by Marten ten Hoor
    3. The Fifth Amendment Today by Erwin N. Griswold
    4. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    5. Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell
    6. The Human Brain by John E. Pfeiffer
    7. The Prevalence of People by Marston Bates
    8. Africa Today by C. Grove Haines
    9. The Indian and the Horse by Frank Gilbert Roe
    10. The Passenger Pigeon by A.W. Schorger
    11. A Train of Powder by Rebecca West
    12. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams
    13. The Intelligent Heart by Harry T. Moore
    14. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    15. Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A by Richard Stoddard Aldrich
    16. The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden
    17. The Black Prince, and Other Stories by Shirley Ann Grau
    18. The Cornerstone by Zoe Oldenbourg
    The American Scholar, Summer 1955, pp. 369-377