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Walt Whitman, geb. 1819 im Staat New York, gestorben 1892 im Staat New Jersey, begründete die moderne amerikanische Dichtung. Der Dichter erweiterte ständig sein Lebenswerk, den Gedichtband Leaves of Grass. Dieses Werk vergrößerte sich von Auflage zu Auflage und kontrastiert die Zeit der amerikanischen Industrialisierung und Kommerzialisierung. In der großen Sinnlichkeit und geradezu überbordenden Körperlichkeit, die von Whitmans Gedichten au...

Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one, ) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves, ) Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name.

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Bloom, author of "The Western Canon" and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of "Song of Myself" to the late poems of "Good-bye My Fancy.

Presents over 200 of the fearless and explicit poems that Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life, before he became America's "respectable, grandfatherly Good Gray Poet" through 30 years of revision and self-censorship. 2 illustrations. 7 photos.

Combining the verses of a poem from Walt Whitman's collection "Leaves of Grass" with charming collage illustrations of a cat family, Roth shows young readers how much there is to celebrate in nature and in life. Full color.

CONTENTS: America I. Poems of War II. Poems of After-War III. Poems of America IV. Poems of Democracy Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps

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 Ameri...

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed, " calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass initially consisted of a preface, twelve untitled poems i...

Generous sampling from "Leaves of Grass, "including "I Hear America Singing, " "Song of the Open Road, " "I Sing the Body Electric, " "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, " "O Captain! My Captain!" and 19 more.

From Leaves of Grass to "Song of Myself, " all of Whitman's poetry in one volume In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that 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...

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During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.