The Portable Walt Whitman
Title | The Portable Walt Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Whitman |
Publisher | Random House Value Publishing |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780517478592 |
When 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 on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America.
The Portable Walt Whitman
Title | The Portable Walt Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Whitman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2003-12-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780142437681 |
A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories When 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 on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Portable Walt Whitman
Title | The Portable Walt Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Whitman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Portable Walt Whitman
Title | The Portable Walt Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Whitman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Portable Walt Whitman
Title | The Portable Walt Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Whitman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780670764112 |
The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
Title | The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Whitman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1973 |
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ISBN |
On Whitman
Title | On Whitman PDF eBook |
Author | C. K. Williams |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2017-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691176108 |
In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.