Portable Walt Whitman

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0142437689

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The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

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.

Author : Walt Whitman,Malcolm Cowley
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0517478595

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The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman,Malcolm Cowley Pdf

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.

Author : Walt Whitman,Mark Van Doren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:615017198

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The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman,Mark Van Doren Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman,Mark Van Doren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:802160112

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The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman,Mark Van Doren Pdf

Author : Michael Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322845123

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Portable Walt Whitman by Michael Warner Pdf

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400834334

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On Whitman by C. K. Williams Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman 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.

Author : Justin Kaplan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060535113

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Walt Whitman by Justin Kaplan Pdf

Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : OCLC:1040907205

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Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414030451

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Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Donna Cassidy
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584654465

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Marsden Hartley by Donna Cassidy Pdf

A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1853264334

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The Works of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

This collection contains the poetic works of Walt Whitman. These poems reflect the vitality of a new nation and the vastness of its lands. They combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes but did not conform to previous genres.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115900

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Walt Whitman by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a critical analysis of some of the works of Walt Whitman including a short biography.

Author : Alexandra Manglis,Kristen Case
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571319869

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21 | 19 by Alexandra Manglis,Kristen Case Pdf

Essays on the modern relevance of Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, and more “suggest the ways poetry might be both agitator and balm in times of social crisis” (Poets & Writers). The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were promising, even if belied in reality by violence and hypocrisy. The writers of this “American Renaissance”—Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson, among many others—produced a body of work that has been both celebrated and contested by following generations. As the twenty-first century unfolds in a United States characterized by deep divisions, diminished democracy, and dramatic transformation of identities, the editors of this singular book approached a dozen North American poets, asking them to engage with texts by their predecessors in a manner that avoids both aloofness from the past and too-easy elegy. The resulting essays, delving into topics including race and gun violence, dwell provocatively on the border between the lyrical and the scholarly, casting fresh critical light on the golden age of American literature and exploring a handful of texts not commonly included in its canon. A polyvocal collection that reflects the complexity of the cross-temporal encounter it enacts, 21 | 19 offers a re-reading of the “American Renaissance” and new possibilities for imaginative critical practice today. “Displaying a sophisticated sense of poetics as well as a good grasp of history and its implications for the present moment . . . [the editors] have done a remarkable job of bringing together such a challenging collection.” —Harvard Review

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141919836

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The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman Pdf

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric' to the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Whitman's art fuses oratory, journalism and song in a vivid celebration of humanity.

Author : Hans Bergmann
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1566393582

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God in the Street by Hans Bergmann Pdf

In the fast changing culture of antebellum New York, writers of every stripe celebrated "the City" as a stage for the daily urban encounter between the familiar and the inexplicable. Probing into these richly varied texts, Hans Bergmann uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the new market society— the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction. The period in which New York, the city itself, became firmly established as a subject invented a literary form that attempts to capture the variety of the teeming city and theflaneur, the walking observer. But Bergmann does not simply lead a parade of images and themes; he explores the ways in which these observers understood what was happening around them and to them, always attentive to class struggle and race and gender issues.God in the Streetshows how the penny press and Whitman's New York poetry create a new mass culture hero who interprets and dignifies the city's confusions. New York writers, both serious and sensationalist, meditate upon street encounters with tricksters and confidence-men and explore the meanings of encounters. Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrinever" underlines the unrelenting isolation and inability to control the interpreter. Bergmann reinterprets Melville'sThe Confidence Manas an example of how a complex literary form arises directly from its own historical materials and is itself socially symbolic. Bergmann sees Melville as special because he recognizes his inability to make sense of the surface of chaotic images and encounters. In mid-century New York City, Melville believes God is in the street, unavailable and unrecognizable, rather than omnipresent and guiding. Author note:Hans Bergmannis Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University.