摘要一、引言《草叶集》(The Grass of Leaves)是瓦尔特·惠特曼(Walt Whitman,1819-1892)一生唯一的一部诗集。《草叶集》反映了"他的时代和国家的面貌,所以不仅是他的个人史诗,也是19世纪美国的史诗",(惠特曼,2003:4)使得惠特曼成为19世纪蜚声世界的第一个美国作家。"
2Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenburg, The Growth of the American Republic, Vol. Ⅰ, New York: Oxford University Press,1969, p. 498. p719.
3Sculley Bradley, et al, eds, The American Tradition in Literature, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc,1974, p. 14.
4Richard Ellmann and Robert O' Clair, eds, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, New York: W. W.Norton & Company, 1988, p. 19.
7David S. Reynolds, Politics and Poetry: Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s , The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by Ezra Greernspan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995),pp. 66-91.
8David S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance. The Subversive Imagination in the Ages of Emerson and Melville, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,1988, p. 310.
9Alexander DeConde et al, eds, Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, Vol. 2, New York: Scribner,2002, p. 527.
10Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy,Vol. 2, p. 527. p.529.
