The Portable Walt Whitman

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Penguin, 30 դեկ, 2003 թ. - 608 էջ

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.

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... sound. Despite its reliance on print, this effect helps to create on the page the sense of a vital vocal exposure or challenge—like opera or oratory, the arts he most admired. But another effect of the long line— with its ad hoc sonic ...
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... sound stiff, painfully formal; those to soldiers, or horse-cart drivers, or his own mother, speak with a sweet and simple eloquence. Friends offered him comfortable homes on Fifth Avenue, on the Hudson, and elsewhere; but from the early ...
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... sounds like his own version of the Sermon on the Mount: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor ...
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... sound “too pretty.” It is characteristic of the Anglo-American religious scene that Helen Price describes as “religious sentiment” something that has no place for “dogmas, churches, creeds, etc.” Religion reduced to sentiment will seem ...
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... sounds his “barbaric yawp” over the roofs of the world), and sometimes faced flatly (as in the quasi-confessional section 6 of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”). It is the implicit backdrop of everything Whitman wrote. Certainly not least of ...

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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS
SLANG IN AMERICA
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.

Michael Warner is a professor of English at Rutgers University. His most recent works include American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, and his essays and journalism have appeared in the Village Voice, the Nation, and other magazines.

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ՎերնագիրThe Portable Walt Whitman
Penguin classics
ՀեղինակWalt Whitman
EditorMichael Warner
ՀրատարակիչPenguin, 2003
ISBN1440650977, 9781440650970
Length608 էջ
  
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