On Whitman

On Whitman
Author: C. K. Williams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691176108

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.

Whitman's Poetry of the Body

Whitman's Poetry of the Body
Author: M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1989
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780807843147

This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry an

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
Author: Justin Kaplan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003-07-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780060535117

Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.

Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself

Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1935639781

"Walt Whitman's iconic Leaves of grass has earned a reputation as a sacred American text, so it's fitting that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has illuminated--like the holy scriptures of medieval monks--the core of Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of myself". Crawford's handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that's both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem--exuberant, rough, and wild."--Book jacket.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
Author: Barbara Kerley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Meticulously researched and documented, this portrait of American poet Walt Whitman celebrates his work and provides insight to this man, artist, and Civil War hero who is a symbol of America. Full color.

What Is the Grass

What Is the Grass
Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 039354141X

“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.

Whitman and the Irish

Whitman and the Irish
Author: Joann P. Krieg
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1587293412

Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first edition of Leaves of Grass was published, the Irish made up one of the largest immigrant populations in New York City and, as such, maintained a cultural identity of their own. All of this “Irishness” swirled about Whitman as he trod the streets of his Mannahatta, ultimately becoming part of him and his poetry. As members of the working class, famous authors, or close friends, the Irish left their mark on Whitman the man and poet. In Whitman and the Irish, Joann Krieg convincingly establishes their importance within the larger framework of Whitman studies. Focusing on geography rather than biography, Krieg traces Whitman's encounters with cities where the Irish formed a large portion of the population—New York City, Boston, Camden, and Dublin—or where, as in the case of Washington, D.C., he had exceptionally close Irish friends. She also provides a brief yet important historical summary of Ireland and its relationship with America. Whitman and the Irish does more than examine Whitman's Irish friends and acquaintances: it adds a valuable dimension to our understanding of his personal world and explores a number of vital questions in social and cultural history. Krieg places Whitman in relation to the emerging labor culture of ante-bellum New York, reveals the relationship between Whitman's cultural nationalism and the Irish nationalism of the late nineteenth century, and reflects upon Whitman's involvement with the Union cause and that of Irish American soldiers.

Whitman the Political Poet

Whitman the Political Poet
Author: Betsy Erkkila
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1989
Genre: History and criticism
ISBN: 0195113802

Erkkila's aim is to repair the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political and the poet and the history that has governed the analysis and evaluation of Whitman and his work in the past.

The Portable Walt Whitman

The Portable Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2003-12-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1440650977

A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.