The Life Of Walt Whitman In His Own Words
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The Life Of Walt Whitman In His Own Words
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-05-02
The Life Of Walt Whitman In His Own Words written by Walt Whitman and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Specimen Days is a series of diary entries about Whitman's life, from his boyhood days at Rockaway Beach, to his nursing days in Washington D.C during the Civil War, and finally to his time in Camden New Jersey. His account of the Civil War Hospitals is painful to read, but his kindness and ministrations to the wounded soldiers (writing them letters home and giving them horehound candy) are really touching. He estimated that visited between 80,000 and 100,000 young men. My great grandfather was in one of those hospitals, so I like to think that Walt stopped by to give him some candy and talk. After the war, Whitman came down with an illness and was partially paralyzed. He moved to Camden and spent his afternoons outside in nature. He attributes his rebound in health to this time and wrote many essays about the outdoors and the nature around him.
The Works Of Walt Whitman
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1995
The Works Of Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Poetry categories.
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.
Autobiographia
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-26
Autobiographia written by Walt Whitman and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-26 with categories.
From the EDITOR'S NOTE. Walt Wh1tman's death finally came as a surprise to his friends. Only two months before it took place Mr. John Burroughs had written to a correspondent, "I have repeatedly said that he would outlive us all;" and this was the belief of those who had observed the good, gray poet's recovery from so many serious attacks of illness. When I visited Camden, with the purpose of gaining his consent to eclectic editions of his poems and prose, the task seemed hopeless. The publication of a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass had often been urged upon Mr. Whitman, but he never could bring himself to permit it. I should be ungrateful, indeed, were I not to acknowledge here the hearty cooperation afforded me by Mr. Horace L. Traubel, of Camden, in achieving this object. It is well known that he has been for some years the poet's chief friend and assistant in the latter's literary affairs, besides organizing and conducting arrangements for the invalid's personal comfort. I found that Mr. Traubel himself had in mind a volume of prose selections similar to the one now published, but he cordially entered into my plans, and presented me with his intended title, Autobiographia. As in the case of Selected Poems, the plan of this book was approved by Mr. Whitman, but, as in that case also, death prevented his examining the completed work. The sole responsibility for these selections, therefore, rests with the editor, whose purpose has been to give a consecutive account of the poet's life in his own characteristic language. Specimen Days, of course, forms the basis of the book, and I have added in their proper order passages from the author's later volumes, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy. By this means a very fair view of his life is afforded. It has not seemed necessary to indicate the frequent omissions from Specimen Days. These passages have been cut out as not directly bearing on the story of his career, or as duplicating similar experiences beyond the limits of this volume. Memoranda During the War, including all of the author's hospital diary here given, was published as a separate volume in 1875, and afterward as a portion of Specimen Day (1883). The nature-notes and much of the travel-notes first appeared in The Critic and the New York Tribune, which journals, with the old Galaxy (published by William C. and Frank P. Church) accepted almost every poem and article offered them by Walt Whitman. The poet's prose style, for the most part, is conversational and loosely written or elaborately involved. In the opening paragraph of Specimen Days the author hints at his lack of strength to revise what follows, and criticism may therefore be deprecated. That he could write effective prose, when willing to take pains, and when not writing by theory, can be seen by the following extract from the preface to Two Rivulets (1876): "As I write these lines, it is again early summer-again my birthday-now my fifty-sixth. Amid the outside beauty and freshness, the sunlight and verdure of the delightful season, O how different the moral atmosphere am id which I now revise this Volume, from the jocund influences surrounding the growth and advent of Leaves of Grass. I occupy myself, arranging these pages for publication, still envelopt in thoughts of the death two years since of my dear Mother, the most perfect and magnetic character, the rarest combination of practical, moral and spiritual, and the least selfish, of all and any I have ever known-and by me O so much the more deeply loved-and also under the physical affliction of a tedious attack of paralysis, obstinately lingering and keeping its hold upon me, and quite suspending all bodily activity and comfort."....
Walt Whitman S Song Of Myself
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Walt Whitman S Song Of Myself written by Walt Whitman and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
An intelligent introduction to this famous poem, including contextual information, an overview of critical reception and critical extracts, key passages with commentary and annotation, and the poem in its full 'final' 1881 edition.
The Complete Poetry
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-13
The Complete Poetry written by Walt Whitman and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-13 with Poetry categories.
This edition includes: Leaves of Grass (First Edition): Song of Myself A Song for Occupations To Think of Time The Sleepers I Sing the Body Electric Faces Song of the Answerer Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States A Boston Ballad There Was a Child Went Forth Who Learns My Lesson Complete Great Are the Myths Leaves of Grass (Final Edition): Inscriptions Starting from Paumanok Song of Myself Children of Adam Calamus Salut au Monde! Song of the Open Road Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Song of the Answerer Our Old Feuillage A Song of Joys Song of the Broad-Axe Song of the Exposition Song of the Redwood-Tree A Song for Occupations A Song of the Rolling Earth Birds of Passage A Broadway Pageant Sea-Drift By the Roadside Drum-Taps Memories of President Lincoln By Blue Ontario's Shore Autumn Rivulets Proud Music of the Storm Passage to India Prayer of Columbus The Sleepers To Think of Time Whispers of Heavenly Death Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood From Noon to Starry Night Songs of Parting Sands at Seventy Good-Bye My Fancy Other Poems: The Few Drops Known Then Shall Perceive To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power One Thought Ever at the Fore While Behind All Firm and Erect A Kiss to the Bride Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day the Publish'd Shame Supplement Hours Of Many a Smutch'd Deed Reminiscent To Be at All A Thought of Columbus On the Same Picture Death's Valley Great are the Myths Blood-Money Ambition Resurgemus Poem of Remembrance For a Girl or a Boy of These States Think of the Soul Respondez! Apostroph O Sun of Real Pace So Far and So Far, and on Toward the End In the New Garden, in All the Parts States! Long! Thought That Knowledge Hours Continuing Long, Sore and Heavy-Hearted Who is Now Reading This! To You Of the Visages of Things Says Debris Thought Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb Bathed in War's Perfume Not my Enemies Ever Invade Me This Day, O Soul Lessons One Song, America, Before I Go After an Interval The Beauty of the Ship...
Leaves Of Grass
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Release Date : 2023-12-12
Leaves Of Grass written by Walt Whitman and has been published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-12 with Philosophy categories.
ONE OF THE CENTRAL WORKS OF AMERICAN POETRY First published in 1855, this poetry collection by American poet, Walt Whitman is a celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity, and spans the human element from the perspective of both the mind and the body. Instead of focusing on religion or spirituality, Leaves of Grass focuses mainly on celebrating the body, exalting nature, praising the senses, and the material world. He was greatly influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement. The writing, which was highly controversial and condemned as immoral due to its explicit sexual imagery, is with the exception of one poem, an innovative free style verse which does not rhyme or follow the standard rules for meter and line length. This collection of loosely-connected poems was a work in progress through over four decades. When Whitman published the first edition of Leaves of Grass at his own expense, it was a volume of only twelve poems. He spent most of his life writing and rewriting the book until at the end, after four decades, he published the final version containing over 400 poems only weeks before he died in 1892. In what is regarded by many scholars, to be a completely "do-it-yourself" project, the collection has infiltrated popular culture and is recognized today as one of the central works of American poetry. Many movements have used Whitman's work throughout the years as a means to further social and political change.
Earth My Likeness
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2010
Earth My Likeness written by Walt Whitman and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Nature categories.
"Earth, My Likeness is a collection of poetry by Walt Whitman that focuses on nature and contains much of his best and most vital work accompanied by beautiful watercolor illustrations"--Provided by publisher.
Notebooks And Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007-06
Notebooks And Unpublished Prose Manuscripts written by Walt Whitman and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06 with Literary Collections categories.
General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America’s most important poets. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts gathers Whitman’s autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study. Included is material on his Civil War experiences, his love of Abraham Lincoln, his descriptions of various trips to the West and South and of the cities in which he resided, his generally pessimistic view of America’s prospects in the Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, and his reminiscences during his final years and his preoccupation with the increasing ailments that came with old age. Many of these notes served as sources for his poetry—first drafts of some of the poems are included as they appear in the notes—and as the basis for his lectures.
Walt Whitman
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2012
Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Walt Whitman was a poetic Visionary. He published the first edition of this monumental work in 1855 and began his magnum opus with the words, "America does not repel the past of what it has produced." He asserted in his declaration: America is "essentially the greatest poem." And he qualified this remark by stating that the "genius of the United States," that which is at the core, the essence of the poem of America, is "always most in the common people." Whitman wrote for and about the common people, and wanted his work to somehow bring about a political renewal that would truly represent the grand Idea of democracy. In this book Whitman overturns centuries of Western political and social thought. Whitman's democratic vision was something so unprecedented in so many ways that his reception at first could be characterized as utter incomprehension. It is believed that only a couple hundred people, at most, read the original 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass and many of these readers did not know what to make of the book. Some people were completely outraged and offended. Others were enraptured. Whitman was the self appointed poet-prophet of America and created, where he saw a lack, a new democratic religious understanding for the modern world.
What Is The Grass
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Author : Mark Doty
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-04-06
What Is The Grass written by Mark Doty and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.