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 altro 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 meno
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Opere di 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) 72 copie
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume II: Poems: 1860-1867 (1959) 71 copie
Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers (1995) — Autore — 59 copie
Leaves Of Grass - Selected And With An Introduction By Christopher Morley - Illustrations By Lewis C. Daniel (1939) 45 copie
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of… (2019) 40 copie
Leaves of grass: Including Sands at seventy, first annex, Good-by my fancy, second annex, A backward glance o'er… (1907) 33 copie
The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser,… (2014) 29 copie
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (2005) 25 copie
Walt Whitman 20 copie
Leaves of grass including a fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of gathered… (1900) 16 copie
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (1949) 13 copie
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856 (1980) 12 copie
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Lewis Daniel Doubleday Doran 1940 in Slipcase (1940) — Autore — 11 copie
Leaves of Grass with an introduction by gay wilson allen.signet classic, ct23. (paperback) (1960) 9 copie
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa Whitman Series) (2011) 8 copie
Walt Whitman Poetry Collection: Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and A Complete Biography of Walt Whitman (2020) 7 copie
Two prefaces 7 copie
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume III: Poems: 1870-1891 (1980) 7 copie
Leaves of Grass a selection of Poems — Autore — 6 copie
Leaves of Grass - The Deathbed Edition Complete with 400 Poems (Reader's Library Classics) (2022) 5 copie
Walt Whitman's Blue Book : The 1860-61 Leaves of grass containing his manuscript, additations, and revisions (2010) 5 copie
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 5 copie
Works of Walt Whitman. Including Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days, Drum Taps & more (mobi) (2008) 5 copie
Digte 5 copie
Walt Whitman's Poems. Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Charles T. Davis (Evergreen Books. no. 161.) (1955) 4 copie
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves Of Grass, Drum-Taps, The Patriotic Poems, The Wound Dresser and More (89… (2013) 4 copie
Greatest Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Good-Bye My Fancy, Specimen Days, Collect, November Boughs,… (2012) 4 copie
Song of the Broad-Axe 3 copie
Starting from Paumanok 3 copie
La quercia 3 copie
Manly Health and Training: With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions - New American Edition (2016) 3 copie
Canti d'addio 3 copie
Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles (Library of Southern Civilization) (2022) 3 copie
The Song of the Open Road 3 copie
Calamus : a series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle) (2015) 3 copie
The Works of Walt Whitman in Two Volumes as Prepared By Him for the Deathbed Edition. Vol. 1: the Collected Poetry.… (1968) 3 copie
Pictures : a poem 2 copie
An English and an American poet 2 copie
Two Rivulets 2 copie
Leaves of Grass (Selection) I 2 copie
Calamus, letters to Peter Doyle 2 copie
Selections from Whitman 2 copie
Folhas das folhas da relva 2 copie
Slang in America 2 copie
Ich rufe Erde und Meer an 2 copie
Leaves of Grass, Comprising all the Poems ...following the Arrangement of the 1891 - 92 Edition. [Modern Library Giant… (1961) 2 copie
Short Stories 2 copie
Leaves of Grass 2 copie
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) (1965) 2 copie
Collection of American Poetry: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth… (2010) 2 copie
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. Includes; Inscriptions; Song of Myself; Children of Adam; Calamus; Song of Open Road;… (1942) 2 copie
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up: Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Iowa Whitman Series) (2021) 2 copie
The best of Whitman 2 copie
Collected writings 2 copie
Two Rivulets, Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [And As a Strong Bird On Pinions… (2012) 1 copia
Specimen Days and a collection 1 copia
Prefácios a Folhas de Erva 1 copia
Two Rivulets 1 copia
Song of the Exposition 1 copia
Selections From Leaves Of Grass 1 copia
Walt Whitman Abroad 1 copia
Poemas esenciales 1 copia
Życie i przygody Jacka Engle'a 1 copia
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Prosaschriften 1 copia
Walt Whitman's Blue Book 1 copia
Leaves of Grass - Foglie d'erba 1 copia
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) 1 copia
Vidas ejemplares 1 copia
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Whitman, Walt (2002) Paperback 1 copia
Death of Abraham Lincoln 1 copia
Three Poems 1 copia
Prose Works 1892 Volume 2 1 copia
Collected Works of Walt Whitman 1 copia
FIJE BARI 1 copia
SEÇME ŞİİRLER 1 copia
Prose Works 1892 Volume 1 1 copia
Whitman_Leaves_of_Grass.mobi 1 copia
DEMOKRACJA I PERSONALIZM 1 copia
Miracles (excerpt) 1 copia
diVersi 1 copia
Sangen om migselv 1 copia
“Starting from Paumanok” 1 copia
“Sparkles from the Whell” 1 copia
“Broadway Pageant” 1 copia
"The Sleepers" 1 copia
“I Sing the Body Electric” 1 copia
“I Hear America Singing” 1 copia
"A Woman Waits for Me" 1 copia
Leaves of Grass C3 1 copia
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS (I) & DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Everyman's Library 1930 [Hardcover] unknown 1 copia
Hymn on the Death of Lincoln 1 copia
American poetry 1 copia
Manahatta 1 copia
Complete Works of Walt Whitman "American Poet, Essayist, and Journalist"! 9 Complete Works (Patriotic Poems, Democratic… (2016) 1 copia
Whitman's Poems 1 copia
Canti scelti 1 copia
Choix de poèmes 1 copia
Canção da estrada larga 1 copia
Fremtidens historie 1 copia
Freedom and Domination 1 copia
Ruohonlehtiä 1 copia
Song of the Redwood Tree 1 copia
collected prose 1 copia
Leaves of Grass Inclusive edition. From the text of the edition authorized and editorially supervised by his literary… (1926) 1 copia
Gesang von der offenen Landstraße. Mit 6 ganzseitigen Original-Holzschnitten von William Tegtmeier. Druck in Schwarz… (1921) 1 copia
Foglie D'erba 1855 1 copia
Criticism : an unpublished essay 1 copia
Fuldkomne Dage 1 copia
A Noiseless Patient Spider 1 copia
Hojas de Hierba - Tomo I 1 copia
New York dissected : a sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass (1976) 1 copia
Ich singe für dich, o Demokratie 1 copia
A collection of poems. 1 copia
Voices and Visions-Walt Whitman 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 1 1 copia
Poems by Walt Whitman 1 copia
Walt Whitman, Conversaciones 1 copia
Whitman Manuscripts at the University of Virginia (The Walt Whitman Archive, Vol 3, Pt. 1-2) (1993) 1 copia
Lyrik und Prosa 1 copia
Opere alese 1 copia
Poèmes de Walt Whitman 1 copia
Cîntec despre mine 1 copia
Walt Whitman's poems 1 copia
Short Stories by Walt Whitman 1 copia
Kosmos 1 copia
Poesías 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 2 1 copia
Selected poetry-list poems 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 4 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 5 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 6 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 7 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 8 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 9 1 copia
Complete Writings Vol. 10 1 copia
Io canto me stesso 1 copia
THREE POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN SET TO MUSIC BY R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1. NOCTURNE - 2. A CLEAR MIDNIGHT - 3. JOY, SHIPMATE,… (1925) 1 copia
Eidolons 1 copia
Canto di una vita immensa 1 copia
Poems and prose 1 copia
Leaves of grass, Democratic vistas, specimen days, with a biographical and critical introduction 1 copia
a child's reminiscence 1 copia
Werke 1 copia
Demokratski vidici 1 copia
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A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — alcune edizioni — 489 copie
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 255 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (2012) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Collaboratore — 153 copie
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Collaboratore — 148 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
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War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Collaboratore — 86 copie
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Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Grolier Classics: History of Tom Jones, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,… (1956) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Six Great American Poets: Poems by Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow, Frost and Millay (Dover Thrift Editions) (1992) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Holst : The planets + The mystic trumpeter + Matthews : Pluto [sound recording] (2002) — Poet — 13 copie
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The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Mitt skattkammer. b.9 Gjennom tidene — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Beletra Almanako 2 (BA2 - Literaturo en Esperanto) (Esperanto Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Toward the unknown region [score] — Lyricist — 5 copie
The Bibelot, Volume XVIII: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and… (1912) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The American Bible (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 12) (v. 12) (1928) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Washington: a reader; the National Capital as seen through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson (1967) 3 copie
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Whitman, Walt
- Nome legale
- Whitman, Walter
- Altri nomi
- Whitman, Walt
- Data di nascita
- 1819-05-31
- Data di morte
- 1892-03-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Causa della morte
- miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis
- Luogo di residenza
- Washington, D.C., USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Istruzione
- self-educated
- Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
essayist
editor
teacher (mostra tutto 12)
nurse
typesetter
apprentice printer
convention delegate
journalist
clerk (Bureau of Indian Affairs ∙ U.S. Department of the Interior) - Organizzazioni
- The Patriot
Long Islander
Long Island Democrat
Brooklyn Eagle - Premi e riconoscimenti
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1930)
Gave Commencement Address at Dartmouth College (1872)
Walt Whitman Bridge - Breve biografia
- 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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- Voto
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- ISBN
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- Lingue
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