Central Washington University - Department of English: Steven D. Olson

PUBLICATIONS

Several entries in The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald D.

Kummings and J. R. LeMaster. New York and London : Garland , 1998. The entries are on the concept of space in Whitman and on the following poems and sections of Leaves of Grass : "Whispers of Heavenly Death" (poem and section), "From Far Dakota's Canons," "From the Leaven'd Soil They Trod," "From Noon to Starry Night" (section),"Song of the Redwood Tree."

The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry . Norman and

London : U of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

"'Now the wild prairie to the view Appears': Nineteenth-Century Illinois

Poets of the Prairies."Western Illinois Regional Studies 11.1 (1988): 23-38.

"A Perverted Poetics: Bryant's and Emerson's Concern for a Developing

American Literature." American Transcendental Quarterly 61 (October 1986): 15-21.

"William Cullen Bryant's View of Prairie America 's Conflicting Values."

North Dakota Quarterly 53.4 (1985): 35-43.

"Coming Home." South Dakota Review 20.4 (1982): 24-25. Poem.

Back to Faculty English Home Curriculum Vitae Awards & Publications Steve		Steven Olson Publications PUBLICATIONS Several entries in The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald D. Kummings and J. R. LeMaster. New York and London : Garland , 1998. The entries are on the concept of space in Whitman and on the following poems and sections of Leaves of Grass : "Whispers of Heavenly Death" (poem and section), "From Far Dakota's Canons," "From the Leaven'd Soil They Trod," "From Noon to Starry Night" (section),"Song of the Redwood Tree." The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry . Norman and London : U of Oklahoma Press, 1994. "'Now the wild prairie to the view Appears': Nineteenth-Century Illinois Poets of the Prairies."Western Illinois Regional Studies 11.1 (1988): 23-38. "A Perverted Poetics: Bryant's and Emerson's Concern for a Developing American Literature." American Transcendental Quarterly 61 (October 1986): 15-21. "William Cullen Bryant's View of Prairie America 's Conflicting Values." North Dakota Quarterly 53.4 (1985): 35-43. "Coming Home." South Dakota Review 20.4 (1982): 24-25. Poem. Curriculum Vitae \| Awards & Publications \| Steve
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