Walt Whitman S America

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679767091

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Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307761927

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Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307761927

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Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002415170D

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195120813

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A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds Pdf

This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore Whitman's relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores and the idea of democracy.

Author : Kenneth M. Price
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807876114

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To Walt Whitman, America by Kenneth M. Price Pdf

Walt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed to the ongoing process of shaping the character of the United States. Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as those of writers who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. He focuses on fictional works by Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Naylor, among others. In Price's study, Leaves of Grass emerges as a living document accruing meanings that evolve with time and with new readers, with Whitman and his words regularly pulled into debates over immigration, politics, sexuality, and national identity. As Price demonstrates, Whitman is a recurring starting point, a provocation, and an irresistible, rewritable text for those who reinvent the icon in their efforts to remake America itself.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473362222

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Poems by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry. Here are collected his finest poems, a perfect companion for any fan of Whitman's work.

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195170092

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Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds Pdf

Portrays Walt Whitman in the social, political, and cultural context of his day.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781722525057

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Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Pdf

One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. “Song of Myself”, a portion of Whitman’s monumental poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed of all American poems, it is written in Whitman’s signature free verse style, without a regular form, meter, or rhythm. His lines have a mesmerizing chant-like quality, as he sought to make poetry more appealing. Few poems are as fun to read aloud as this one. Considered to be the core of his poetic vision, this poem is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world in 1855. It is exhilarating, epic, and fresh in its brilliant and fascinating diction and wordplay as it tries to capture the unique meaning of words of the day, while also embracing the rapidly evolving vocabularies of the sciences and the streets. Far ahead of its time, it was considered by many social conservatives to be scandalous and obscene for its depiction of sexuality and desire, while at the same time, critics hailed the poem as a modern masterpiece. This first version of “Song of Myself” is far superior to the later versions and will delight readers with the playfulness of its diction as it glorifies the self, body, and soul. “I am large, I contain multitudes,”

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Historical Guides to American Authors
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195120825

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A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds Pdf

This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts & the idea of democracy.

Author : Gay Wilson Allen,Ed Folsom
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587290046

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Walt Whitman and the World by Gay Wilson Allen,Ed Folsom Pdf

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 085646340X

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I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman Pdf

Walt Whitman (1819-92) is the authentic voice of democratic America. After a childhood in Brooklyn, he spent many years in and around Manhattan and Washington, where he witnessed troops returning from the Civil War and tended wounded soldiers in the camp hospitals. Whitman's broad humanity, his love of cities (especially Manhattan), his sympathy with all conditions of people, and his visionary - even prophetic - sense of the reality of the American dream make him as much a poet for our time as he was for the time of the American Civil War and its aftermath. This selection of courageous and consoling poems focuses on Whitman's vision of democracy, his love of Manhattan, his sense of the future - and of the community of peoples of this earth.

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 1417719281

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Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds Pdf

This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time--considers the full range of writings by and about Whitman, including his early poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and day books. of photos.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591049980

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Tyler Hoffman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472035526

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American Poetry in Performance by Tyler Hoffman Pdf

American Performance Poetry is the first book to trace a comprehensive history of performance poetry in America from Whitman through the rap-meets-poetry scene and to show how the performance of poetry is bound up with the performance of identity and nationality in the modern period. This book will be a meaningful contribution both to the field of American poetry studies and to the fields of cultural and performance studies, as it focuses on poetry that refuses the status of fixed aesthetic object and, in its variability, performs versions of race, class, gender, and sexuality both on and off the page. Relating the performance of poetry to shifting political and cultural ideologies in the United States, Hoffman argues that the vocal aspect of public poetry possesses (or has been imagined to possess) the ability to help construct both national and subaltern communities. In doing so, American Performance Poetry explores public poets’ confrontations with emergent sound recording and communications technologies as those confrontations shape their mythologies of the spoken word and their corresponding notions about America and Americanness.