The Portable Walt Whitman
A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short storiesWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published…
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Weitere Autoren: Warner, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4406-5097-0
- EAN: 9781440650970
- Produktnummer: 17933899
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 480 KB
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.Michael Warner is a professor of English at Rutgers University. His most recent works include American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, and his essays and journalism have appeared in the Village Voice, the Nation, and other magazines.
100 weitere Werke von Walt Whitman:
SONG OF MYSELF (The Original 1855 Edition & The 1892 Death Bed Edition)
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