Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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Walt Whitman was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a carpenter. He left school when he was 11 years old to take a variety of jobs. By the time he was 15, Whitman was living on his own in New York City, working as a printer and writing short pieces for newspapers. He mostra'n més spent a few years teaching, but most of his work was either in journalism or politics. Gradually, Whitman became a regular contributor to a variety of Democratic Party newspapers and reviews, and early in his career established a rather eccentric way of life, spending a great deal of time walking the streets, absorbing life and talking with laborers. Extremely fond of the opera, he used his press pass to spend many evenings in the theater. In 1846, Whitman became editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading Democratic newspaper. Two years later, he was fired for opposing the expansion of slavery into the west. Whitman's career as a poet began in 1885, with the publication of the first edition of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The book was self-published (Whitman probably set some of the type himself), and despite his efforts to publicize it - including writing his own reviews - few people read it. One reader who did appreciate it was essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote a letter greeting Whitman at "the beginning of a great career." Whitman's poetry was unlike any verse that had ever been seen. Written without rhyme, in long, loose lines, filled with poetic lists and exclamations taken from Whitman's reading of the Bible, Homer, and Asian poets, these poems were totally unlike conventional poetry. Their subject matter, too, was unusual - the celebration of a free-spirited individualist whose love for all things and people seemed at times disturbingly sensual. In 1860, with the publication of the third edition on Leaves of Grass, Whitman alienated conventional thinkers and writers even more. When he went to Boston to meet Emerson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poet James Russell Lowell, they all objected to the visit. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Whitman's attentions turned almost exclusively to that conflict. Some of the greatest poetry of his career, including Drum Taps (1865) and his magnificent elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, "When Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865), was written during this period. In 1862, his brother George was wounded in battle, and Whitman went to Washington to nurse him. He continued as a hospital volunteer throughout the war, nursing other wounded soldiers and acting as a benevolent father-figure and confidant. Parts of his memoir Specimen Days (1882) record this period. After the war, Whitman stayed on in Washington, working as a government clerk and continuing to write. In 1873 he suffered a stroke and retired to Camden, New Jersey, where he lived as an invalid for the rest of his life. Ironically, his reputation began to grow during this period, as the public became more receptive to his poetic and personal eccentricities. Whitman tried to capture the spirit of America in a new poetic form. His poetry is rough, colloquial, sweeping in its vistas - a poetic equivalent of the vast land and its varied peoples. Critic Louis Untermeyer has written, "In spite of Whitman's perplexing mannerisms, the poems justify their boundless contradictions. They shake themselves free from rant and bombastic audacities and rise into the clear air of major poetry. Such poetry is not large but self-assured; it knows, as Whitman asserted, the amplitude of time and laughs at dissolution. It contains continents; it unfolds the new heaven and new earth of the Western world." American poetry has never been the same since Whitman tore it away from its formal and thematic constraints, and he is considered by virtually all critics today to be one of the greatest poets the country has ever produced. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will… (1842) 73 exemplars
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume II: Poems: 1860-1867 (1959) 71 exemplars
Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers (1995) — Autor — 59 exemplars
Leaves Of Grass - Selected And With An Introduction By Christopher Morley - Illustrations By Lewis C. Daniel (1939) 45 exemplars
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of… (2019) 40 exemplars
Leaves of grass: Including Sands at seventy, first annex, Good-by my fancy, second annex, A backward glance o'er… (1907) 33 exemplars
The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War (1999) 33 exemplars
The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser,… (2014) 29 exemplars
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (2005) 25 exemplars
Walt Whitman 20 exemplars
Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1934) 19 exemplars
Leaves of grass including a fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of gathered… (1900) 16 exemplars
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (1949) 13 exemplars
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856 (1980) 12 exemplars
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Lewis Daniel Doubleday Doran 1940 in Slipcase (1940) — Autor — 11 exemplars
To the Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings the Poetry of Walt Whitman [sound recording] (2006) — Autor — 9 exemplars
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa Whitman Series) (2011) 8 exemplars
Two prefaces 7 exemplars
Walt Whitman Poetry Collection: Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and A Complete Biography of Walt Whitman (2020) 7 exemplars
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume III: Poems: 1870-1891 (1980) 7 exemplars
Leaves of Grass a selection of Poems — Autor — 6 exemplars
Digte 5 exemplars
Walt Whitman's Blue Book : The 1860-61 Leaves of grass containing his manuscript, additations, and revisions (2010) 5 exemplars
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 5 exemplars
Works of Walt Whitman. Including Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days, Drum Taps & more (mobi) (2008) 5 exemplars
Leaves of Grass - The Deathbed Edition Complete with 400 Poems (Reader's Library Classics) (2022) 5 exemplars
From This Soil, Selected Poems By Walt Whitman 5 exemplars
Greatest Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Good-Bye My Fancy, Specimen Days, Collect, November Boughs,… (2012) 4 exemplars
Walt Whitman's Poems. Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Charles T. Davis (Evergreen Books. no. 161.) (1955) 4 exemplars
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves Of Grass, Drum-Taps, The Patriotic Poems, The Wound Dresser and More (89… (2013) 4 exemplars
Calamus : a series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle) (2015) 3 exemplars
The Correspondence of Walt Whitman Volume VI: A Supplement with a Composite Index (1977) 3 exemplars
Manly Health and Training: With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions - New American Edition (2016) 3 exemplars
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila ’91-2 3 exemplars
Canti d'addio 3 exemplars
Slang in America 3 exemplars
Starting from Paumanok 3 exemplars
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila. ‘84 3 exemplars
La quercia 3 exemplars
Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles (Library of Southern Civilization) (2022) 3 exemplars
The Song of the Open Road 3 exemplars
The Works of Walt Whitman in Two Volumes as Prepared By Him for the Deathbed Edition. Vol. 1: the Collected Poetry.… (1968) 3 exemplars
Song of the Broad-Axe 3 exemplars
Leaves of Grass 2 exemplars
Calamus, letters to Peter Doyle 2 exemplars
Selections from Whitman 2 exemplars
Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems 2 exemplars
Two Rivulets 2 exemplars
Folhas das folhas da relva 2 exemplars
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up: Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Iowa Whitman Series) (2021) 2 exemplars
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman (Crown Classics) 2 exemplars
Canto de mí mismo y otros poemas ; seguido de Una mirada a los caminos recorridos (1997) 2 exemplars
Leaves of Grass, Comprising all the Poems ...following the Arrangement of the 1891 - 92 Edition. [Modern Library Giant… (1961) 2 exemplars
Leaves of Grass (Selection) I 2 exemplars
Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks and Fragments (2020) 2 exemplars
Short Stories 2 exemplars
The best of Whitman 2 exemplars
Leaves of Grass Washington, D.C. ‘72 2 exemplars
An English and an American poet 2 exemplars
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) (1965) 2 exemplars
Leaves of Grass, edited by Emory Holloway 2 exemplars
Poesía completa Edición bilingüe Tomo III 2 exemplars
Walt Whitman : Walt Whitman's autograph revision of the analysis of Leaves of grass (for Dr. R. M. Bucke's… 2 exemplars
Ich rufe Erde und Meer an 2 exemplars
Collection of American Poetry: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth… (2010) 2 exemplars
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. Includes; Inscriptions; Song of Myself; Children of Adam; Calamus; Song of Open Road;… (1942) 2 exemplars
Walt Whitman and the Civil War : a collection of original articles and manuscripts (1999) 2 exemplars
Pictures : a poem 2 exemplars
Collected writings 2 exemplars
Collected Works of Walt Whitman 1 exemplars
The Correspondence, Vol. IV: 1886-1889 1 exemplars
DEMOKRACJA I PERSONALIZM 1 exemplars
Miracles (excerpt) 1 exemplars
The Correspondence, Vol. I: 1842-1867 1 exemplars
Complete Works of Walt Whitman "American Poet, Essayist, and Journalist"! 9 Complete Works (Patriotic Poems, Democratic… (2016) 1 exemplars
diVersi 1 exemplars
behoor je werkelijk tot de volledige mensen? 1 exemplars
Three Poems 1 exemplars
Poemas esenciales 1 exemplars
Death of Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass Everyman's Library 1 exemplars
Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III 1 exemplars
SEÇME ŞİİRLER 1 exemplars
Prose Works 1892 Volume 2 1 exemplars
Życie i przygody Jacka Engle'a 1 exemplars
Prose Works 1892 Volume 1 1 exemplars
The Correspondence Volume 1 1842-1867 1 exemplars
FIJE BARI 1 exemplars
Whitman_Leaves_of_Grass.mobi 1 exemplars
Selections From Leaves Of Grass 1 exemplars
Song of the Exposition 1 exemplars
Two Rivulets, Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [And As a Strong Bird On Pinions… (2012) 1 exemplars
Specimen Days and a collection 1 exemplars
Poems of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1 exemplars
“When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass C3 1 exemplars
“I Hear America Singing” 1 exemplars
Democracy's Poet: Walt Whitman A Celebration 1 exemplars
Hymn on the Death of Lincoln 1 exemplars
“Starting from Paumanok” 1 exemplars
Obras Escogidas, Ensayo biografico critico version, notas y bibliografia de Concha Zardoya 1 exemplars
“I Sing the Body Electric” 1 exemplars
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman 1 exemplars
"The Sleepers" 1 exemplars
“Broadway Pageant” 1 exemplars
“Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” 1 exemplars
“Sparkles from the Whell” 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass - The People's Library 1 exemplars
"An Old Man's Thoughts Of School" 1 exemplars
"A Woman Waits for Me" 1 exemplars
Ecrits de jeunesse (Un endroit où aller t. 265) 1 exemplars
“Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier” 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS (I) & DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Everyman's Library 1930 [Hardcover] unknown 1 exemplars
Prefácios a Folhas de Erva 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) 1 exemplars
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
American poetry 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman Abroad 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman's Blue Book 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass - Foglie d'erba 1 exemplars
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 1 exemplars
Leaves of grass (1855-71) : Democratic vistas 1 exemplars
Vidas ejemplares 1 exemplars
Two Rivulets 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Whitman, Walt (2002) Paperback 1 exemplars
Sangen om migselv 1 exemplars
Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass Vol. LVIII-Number 1 1 exemplars
Manahatta 1 exemplars
Kosmos 1 exemplars
Eidolons 1 exemplars
Selected poetry-list poems 1 exemplars
Werke 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman (The Library of Great Poetry) 1 exemplars
a child's reminiscence 1 exemplars
Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplars
Whitman's Poems 1 exemplars
Canti scelti 1 exemplars
Sangen om meg selv : av "Leaves of grass" 1 exemplars
Choix de poèmes 1 exemplars
Canção da estrada larga 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman, ses meilleures pages 1 exemplars
Freedom and Domination 1 exemplars
Ruohonlehtiä 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems 1 exemplars
New York dissected : a sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass (1976) 1 exemplars
Fremtidens historie 1 exemplars
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 1 exemplars
Voices and Visions-Walt Whitman 1 exemplars
A collection of poems. 1 exemplars
Ich singe für dich, o Demokratie 1 exemplars
Walt Whitmans Werk in zwei Bänden 1 exemplars
Hojas de Hierba - Tomo I 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings 1 exemplars
Foglie D'erba 1855 1 exemplars
Song of the Redwood Tree 1 exemplars
Grashalme. Mit einem Essay v. Gustav Landauer 1 exemplars
A Noiseless Patient Spider 1 exemplars
Domestic Vistas, and Other Papers 1 exemplars
Fuldkomne Dage 1 exemplars
Criticism : an unpublished essay 1 exemplars
Gesang von der offenen Landstraße. Mit 6 ganzseitigen Original-Holzschnitten von William Tegtmeier. Druck in Schwarz… (1921) 1 exemplars
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplars
Poesías 1 exemplars
Poems by Walt Whitman 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman, Conversaciones 1 exemplars
Vida de Walt Whitman "El haragán magnífico" 1 exemplars
Whitman Manuscripts at the University of Virginia (The Walt Whitman Archive, Vol 3, Pt. 1-2) (1993) 1 exemplars
Short Stories by Walt Whitman 1 exemplars
Walt Whitman's poems 1 exemplars
Cîntec despre mine 1 exemplars
Blue Book: Volume II: Textual Analysis 1 exemplars
Poèmes de Walt Whitman 1 exemplars
Opere alese 1 exemplars
Lyrik und Prosa 1 exemplars
Prosaschriften 1 exemplars
Io canto me stesso 1 exemplars
collected prose 1 exemplars
Leaves of Grass Inclusive edition. From the text of the edition authorized and editorially supervised by his literary… (1926) 1 exemplars
Poems and prose 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 1 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 2 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 4 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 5 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 6 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 7 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 8 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 9 1 exemplars
Complete Writings Vol. 10 1 exemplars
Leaves of grass, Democratic vistas, specimen days, with a biographical and critical introduction 1 exemplars
Demokratski vidici 1 exemplars
Excerpts from Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass, 1 exemplars
THREE POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN SET TO MUSIC BY R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1. NOCTURNE - 2. A CLEAR MIDNIGHT - 3. JOY, SHIPMATE,… (1925) 1 exemplars
Canto di una vita immensa 1 exemplars
Obres associades
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 917 exemplars
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Col·laborador — 831 exemplars
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Col·laborador — 522 exemplars
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — algunes edicions — 490 exemplars
The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Col·laborador — 459 exemplars
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Col·laborador — 447 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 255 exemplars
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Col·laborador — 214 exemplars
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Col·laborador — 202 exemplars
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (2012) — Col·laborador — 185 exemplars
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Col·laborador — 153 exemplars
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Col·laborador — 151 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Col·laborador — 83 exemplars
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
LDS Women's Treasury: Insights and Inspiration for Today's Woman (1997) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Grolier Classics: History of Tom Jones, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,… (1956) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Holst : The planets + The mystic trumpeter + Matthews : Pluto [sound recording] (2002) — Poet — 13 exemplars
Six Great American Poets: Poems by Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow, Frost and Millay (Dover Thrift Editions) (1992) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Mitt skattkammer. b.9 Gjennom tidene — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Beletra Almanako 2 (BA2 - Literaturo en Esperanto) (Esperanto Edition) (2008) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Toward the unknown region [score] — Lyricist — 5 exemplars
The Bibelot, Volume XVIII: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and… (1912) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Washington: a reader; the National Capital as seen through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson (1967) 3 exemplars
The American Bible (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 12) (v. 12) (1928) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' + Serenade to music + Symphony no.5 + Toward the unknown region + The Wasps : Overture… (2008) — Lyricist — 1 exemplars
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 28 : Rachmaninov, Borodin & Huw Watkins [programme] (2019) — Text — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Whitman, Walt
- Nom oficial
- Whitman, Walter
- Altres noms
- Whitman, Walt
- Data de naixement
- 1819-05-31
- Data de defunció
- 1892-03-26
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Causa de la mort
- miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis
- Llocs de residència
- Washington, D.C., USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Educació
- self-educated
- Professions
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
essayist
editor
teacher (mostra-les totes 12)
nurse
typesetter
apprentice printer
convention delegate
journalist
clerk (Bureau of Indian Affairs ∙ U.S. Department of the Interior) - Organitzacions
- The Patriot
Long Islander
Long Island Democrat
Brooklyn Eagle - Premis i honors
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1930)
Gave Commencement Address at Dartmouth College (1872)
Walt Whitman Bridge - Biografia breu
- Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman resided in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the death of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he wrote his well known poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures. After a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at the age of 72, his funeral was a public event.
Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe argued: "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass ... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet ... He is America."
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Converses
Walt Whitman a Someone explain it to me... (gener 23)
Victorian Era Abroad: Q1: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman a Club Read 2023 (març 2023)
Arion Press "Leaves of Grass" on ABE a Fine Press Forum (octubre 2022)
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Mind & Thought (1)
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Potser també t'agrada
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 536
- També de
- 106
- Membres
- 27,705
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 241
- ISBN
- 1,074
- Llengües
- 24
- Preferit
- 173