Essential Whitman (Essential Poets)

Walt Whitman

ISBN 10: 0060887923 / ISBN 13: 9780060887926

Published by Ecco, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essential Whitman (Essential Poets)
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060887923
• ISBN 13: 9780060887926
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

From the introduction by Galway Kinnell:

The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense. . . . Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world. . . . Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.

About the Author

Walt Whitman was born on Long Island, New York in 1819. He spent most of his early life in Brooklyn where he served as editor for a number of newspapers for brief periods. His first major work, Leaves of Grass, was published in 1855 and was subsequently published in nine enlarged editions throughout his lifetime. In 1862 in the midst of the Civil War, Whitman set out for the battlefield to find his wounded brother and continued to volunteer in hospitals throughout the length of the war. He died in 1892.