Author: Frank D. CasalePublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438127685
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Offers advice on writing essays about the poetry of Walt Whitman and lists sample topics.
Bloom's How to Write about Walt Whitman
Author: Frank D. CasalePublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438127685
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Offers advice on writing essays about the poetry of Walt Whitman and lists sample topics.
Walt Whitman
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115903
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Presents a critical analysis of some of the works of Walt Whitman including a short biography.
Walt Whitman: Selected Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1931082324
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries, Whitman’s poetry is a testament to the surging energies of 19th-century America and a monument to the transforming power of literary genius. His incantatory rhythms, revolutionary sense of Eros, and generous, all-embracing vision invite renewed wonder at each reading. Although he has been a defining influence for many poets—Garcia Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Robinson Jeffers, and Allen Ginsberg—his style is ultimately inimitable, and his achievement unsurpassed in American poetry. “One always wants to start out fresh with Whitman,” writes Harold Bloom in his introduction, “and read him as though he never has been read before.” In a selection that ranges from early notebook fragments and the complete “Song of Myself” to the valedictory “Good-bye My Fancy!,” Bloom has chosen 47 works to represent “the principal writer that America—North, Central, or South—has brought to us.” About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
Song of Myself ...
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Poems by Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanOn Whitman
Author: C. K. WilliamsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.
What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
Author: Mark DotyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324006056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“[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.
The Anatomy of Influence
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167601
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 159853615X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel. Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet and social reformer Horace Traubel. After each visit, Traubel meticulously recorded their conversation, transcribing with such sensitivity that Whitman’s friend John Burroughs remarked that he felt he could almost hear the poet breathing. In Walt Whitman Speaks, acclaimed author Brenda Wineapple draws from Traubel’s extensive interviews an extraordinary gathering of Whitman’s observations that conveys the core of his ethos and vision. Here is Whitman the sage, champion of expansiveness and human freedom. Here, too, is the poet’s more personal side—his vivid memories of Thoreau, Emerson, and Lincoln, his literary judgments on writers such as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Tolstoy, and his expressions of hope in the democratic promise of the nation he loved. The result is a keepsake edition to touch the soul, capturing the distilled wisdom of America’s greatest poet.