Name: Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman
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Author: Whitman, Walt ; Triggs, Oscar Lovell
ISBN: 9783337493417

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Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Oscar Lovell Triggs

Publisher

Hansebooks

Language

English

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9783337493417

Synopsis "Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman"

Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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