Walt Whitman: The Life And Legacy Of One Of America's Most Influential Poets

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Walt Whitman: The Life And Legacy Of One Of America's Most Influential PoetsISBN13:9781985881303ISBN10:1985881306Author:Charles River Editors (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - *Includes Pictures *Includes Whitman's Quotes And Excerpts Of Poetry *Includes Online Resources And A Bibliography For Further Reading The Proof Of A Poet Is That His Country Absorbs Him As Affectionately As He Has Absorbed It - Walt Whitman Walt Whitman, The Great American Poet, Is Also In Many Ways A Great American Enigma, For More And Less Are Known About Him Than Other Famous Men In 19Th Century American History On The One Hand, He Was The Product Of Something Of An All-American Family, The Sort Of Salt Of The Earth People He Would Later Describe So Vividly In His Work On The Other, He Was A Complete Bohemian And Profligate, Given To Vanity In The Way He Dressed And Lived He Started Out His Career As A School Teacher And Was Later A Newspaper Man, But He Left Both Those Types Of Work For A Job As A Government Bureaucrat As A Young Man, When Most Of His Peers Were Sowing Their Wild Oats, He Was Considered By Many To Be A Stick In The Mud Who Neither Drank Nor Chased Women Then, As A Middle-Aged Man, When His Peers Had Settled Down Into Quieter Lives, He Remained Single And Seems To Have Pursued Romantic Relationships With Both Men And Women Then, Of Course, There Was His Poetry, Words That Summarized Both The Best And Worst About His Nation His Seminal Work, Leaves Of Grass, Began As Little More Than A Pamphlet But Grew For Decades, As Each New Edition Added More Poems By The Time Of His Death, It Had Become A Large Volume Still Studied Today While He Wrote Other Pieces For Publication, Leaves Of Grass Remained His Magnum Opus And His Baby, Nurturing And Developing It Throughout His Life And Yet, Through It All, The Title Remained The Same Self-Deprecating Play On Words That He Had Given It When He First Self-Published The Work In 1855 Floyd Stovall, Who Published A Collection Of Whitman's Works In 1933, Explained How Whitman's Life And Work Affected The Society Around Him: Whitman, Like The Age That Produced Him, Was Both A Culmination And A Beginning In Him Was The Flower Of Romantic Idealism In America, Which Had Its Roots In The Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Of Progress, And In Him Also The Seed Of Scientific Realism, Which Throws Its Maze Of Branches About Contemporary Thought He Bridges The Chasm Made By The Civil War Between The Idealism Of The Past And The Materialism Of The Present And Thus Becomes The Representative Of United America Yet He Was Never Popular In The Passionate Conflicts Of A Changing Civilization, The Advocate Of Harmony Is Liable To Be Suspected By All Factions So It Was With Whitman The Realist Distrusted His Faith In Humanity, And The Idealist Was Shocked Because He Extolled The Animalism Of Man On The One Hand, He Allowed His Readers No Escape From The Imperfections Of The World, While On The Other He Required Them To Transcend These Imperfections The Popular Writer, However, Must Be One Who Enables His Readers To Retain Their Faith In The Actual World By Obscuring Its Imperfections In The Twilight Of Sentiment And Fancy Walt Whitman: The Life And Legacy Of One Of America's Most Influential Poets Looks At The Life And Times Of 19Th Century America's Most Controversial Poet And The Impact His Famous Work Had Along With Pictures Depicting Important People, Places, And Events, You Will Learn About Walt Whitman Like Never Before Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2018-02-26Weight:0.45 lbsDimensions:0.16'' H x 11.02'' L x 8.5'' WNumber of Pages:78Language:English

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