Song of Myself: And Other Poems by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was deeply interested in the American language as it was emerging in his time. He was fascinated by the vocabularies of the sciences and the streets, and was a regular visitor to the New York Public Library, where he loved to peer into the provenience of the words he overheard and read. In this beautiful book, Robert Hass and Paul Ebencamp walk us through Whitman's Song of Myself—one of the greatest poems in American literature. Much is revealed about the words Whitman chose in 1855—their inflections, meanings, and native usages we wouldn't otherwise know. In doing so, we understand perhaps for the first time, Whitman's query in…
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Weitere Autoren: Ebenkamp, Paul (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-58243-571-8
- EAN: 9781582435718
- Produktnummer: 19414954
- Verlag: Counterpoint
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.5 cm 463 g
- Gewicht: 463
Über den Autor
Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.Paul Ebenkamp previously edited the Counterpoint title The Etiquette of Freedom, a conversation with Jim Harrison and Gary Snyder and Song of Myself, a collection of poems from Walt Whitman. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.
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