On the Beach at Night Alone, Walt Whitman

Автор: Whitman Walt
Название: Leaves of Grass
ISBN: 0451419170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451419170
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3650.00 T
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Описание: Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.

Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets--an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman "probably the greatest democrat that ever lived," and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed."

The text presented here is that of the "Deathbed" or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.

With a foreword by Billy Collins, an afterword by Peter Davison, and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink

Автор: Bailey, John
Название: Walt whitman
ISBN: 1406775126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781406775129
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 36770.00 T
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Описание: Contained within the pages of this book is a detailed exploration of the life and work of the great American poet, Walt Whitman. Published more than a generation after his death, this book deals with Whitman's initial reception and explores his ever-developing canonisation as one of the greatest modern poets. Contents include: "The Life Of Whitman", "Characteristics and Comparisons", "Whitman's Language and Metre", "A Walk Through Leaves of Grass", etcetera. A fascinating insight into the author of the seminal poetry collection "Leaves of Grass", this detailed biography is sure to appeal to fans of Walt Whitman's work. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), was an American essayist, journalist, and poet whose seminal poetry continues to be remembered as some of the best ever written. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.