Kenneth Burke\u27s Encounters with Walt Whitman

Explores in detail Kenneth Burke\u27s response to Whitman, arguing that we do not go to Burke for a reading of Whitman … ; we do not go to Burke for knowledge about the making of Leaves of Grass … or for a detailed reading of any poem except \u27When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom\u27d\u27 because ultimately Burke\u27s encounters with Whitman tend to tell us more about Burke than they do about Whitman