Download or read book Letters Written by Walt Whitman to his Mother 1866 1872 written by Walt Whitman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sentimental value of these letters from Walt Whitman to his mother is increased by our knowledge of her influence upon the poet and his poetry. This influence, emotional and not intellectual, was one of the most important forces of his life. Born in 1793, Louisa Van Velsor, the daughter of a Long Island farmer and his Welsh wife, grew up, as Perry says, almost illiterate. In 1816, Louisa married Walter Whitman, an itinerant carpenter, and settled In West Hills for a while. The next twenty years, spent in various parts of Long Island, the Whitmans devoted to raising their nine children, the greater burden falling on the mother. After the death of her husband in 1853, Mrs. Whitman lived in Brooklyn and Camden for eighteen years, living to see the time when George was wounded in the Civil War, when Andrew died, when Hannah’s husband, Charles Heyde, attempted to ruin his wife’s family, when Jeff was in St. Louis, when Walt lived in Washington. These few facts of her life are without significance except that in their unity of purpose Whitman found some of the ideas for ‘Leaves of Grass’. For in his own home, he found the typical American family; in his own home he found the ‘perfect mother’. During the last years of her life Whitman desired nothing more than for them to live together. Their letters constantly discuss the plan, and only finances prevented its realization. How Walt must have admired the even temper, good sense, and cheerfulness which Bucke says Mrs. Whitman possessed! These are the same qualities which come out in her son’s letters. The occasional touches of humor (which many think cannot be found in Whitman), the bits of friendly gossip—’snack talk’ Walt calls it, all the homely business of Walt’s life. In the following pages, we have the privilege of seeing Whitman’s exquisite respect for his mother, his gentleness, his kindness, and his efforts to make her final years peaceful.—Rollo G. Silver

Download or read book Letters Written by Walt Whitman to His Mother 1866 1872 Etc written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters written by Walt Whitman to his mother written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters Written by Walt Whitman to His Mother from 1866 1872 written by Walt Whitman (Dichter, USA) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters Written by Walt Whitman to His Mother from 1866 to 1872 written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters of Walt Whitman to His Mother and an Old Friend written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wound Dresser written by Walt Whitman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman

Download or read book The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman written by Anne Burrows Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoranda During the War written by Walt Whitman and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.

Download or read book The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman written by Anne Gilchrist and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman' is a collection of personal correspondence between the two, showcasing their deep and meaningful friendship. These letters, most of which were written by Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, offer a unique glimpse into their lives and relationship. Though Whitman initially hesitated to share the letters, he preserved them for over twenty years, indicating that they were significant to him. This collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the life and work of one of America's great poets.

Download or read book Selected Letters of Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been an edition of the selected letters of Walt Whitman, a remarkable fact considering how accustomed we are to becoming acquainted with major writers through their letters. Now Edwin Haviland Miller, editor of the six-volume collected writings of Whitman, has used his intimate knowledge of the "good gray poet's" correspondence to produce this revealing selection of 250 letters, introduced and annotated concisely and evocatively. Whitman in these letters is simple, direct, colloquial, adding a counterpoint to his artistic voice and persona as a poet.

Download or read book The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman written by Thomas B. Harned and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Thomas B. Harned

Download or read book The Life of Walt Whitman in His Own Words written by Walt Whitman and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specimen Days is a series of diary entries about Whitman's life, from his boyhood days at Rockaway Beach, to his nursing days in Washington D.C during the Civil War, and finally to his time in Camden New Jersey. His account of the Civil War Hospitals is painful to read, but his kindness and ministrations to the wounded soldiers (writing them letters home and giving them horehound candy) are really touching. He estimated that visited between 80,000 and 100,000 young men. My great grandfather was in one of those hospitals, so I like to think that Walt stopped by to give him some candy and talk. After the war, Whitman came down with an illness and was partially paralyzed. He moved to Camden and spent his afternoons outside in nature. He attributes his rebound in health to this time and wrote many essays about the outdoors and the nature around him.

Download or read book Democratic Vistas written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wound Dresser written by Walt Whitman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wound Dresser is an intimate, graphic, and profoundly moving poem that centers on the theme of nursing the sick and dying. The poem is remarkable for its lack of exaggerated portrayals of pain and suffering.

Download or read book The Wound Dresser written by Walt Whitman and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman is a series of letters written by Whitman from the hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (The Civil War). Enjoy this complete version of Walt Whitman's letters and gain insight into the mind of one of America's great authors during one of America's most trying times. Enjoy The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman today!

Download or read book The Evolution of Walt Whitman written by Roger Asselineau and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman was already articulated by Asselineau nearly half a century ago. Throughout its eight hundred pages, The Evolution of Walt Whitman speaks with authority on a vast range of topics that define both Whitman the man and Whitman the mythical personage. Remarkably, most of these discussions remain fresh and relevant, and that is in part because they have been so influential. In particular, The Evolution of Walt Whitman inaugurated the study of Leaves of Grass as a lifelong work in progress, and it marked the end of the habit of talking about Leaves as if it were a single unified book. Asselineau saw Whitman's poetry “not as a body of static data but as a constantly changing continuum whose evolution must be carefully observed.” Throughout Evolution, Asselineau placed himself in the role of the observer, analyzing Whitman's development with a kind of scientific detachment. But behind this objective persona burned the soul of a risk taker who was willing to rewrite Whitman studies by bravely proposing what was then a controversial biographical source for Whitman's art—his homosexual desires. The Evolution of Walt Whitman is a reminder that extraordinary works of criticism never exist in and of themselves. In this expanded edition, Roger Asselineau has provided a new essay summarizing his own continuing journey with Whitman. A foreword by Ed Folsom, editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly, regards Evolution as the genesis of contemporary Whitman studies.