Name: Song Of Myself (one~poem) (volume 1)
Price: 15.94 EUR
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Author: Whitman, Walt
ISBN: 9781511561716

portada Song Of Myself (one~poem) (volume 1)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN13

9781511561716

Synopsis "Song Of Myself (one~poem) (volume 1)"

Zephyr House is please to publish this beautiful edition of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for its inaugural volume of one poem. One poem and its sister series, one prose re-edition classic literature, poetry, and plays in historically accurate and easy to read formats. Our one prose and one poem series are thin and portable editions of classic short stories, novellas, and longer-length poems that are designed to travel with you. Our one play series publishes classic plays in 8.5x11 inch format, for easy use by cast and crews.For a complete list of volumes and other works published by Zephyr House, please visit our webpage at zephyrhouse.com

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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