Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass written by W. H. Trimble and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass an Introduction written by W H Trimble and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... II. "LEAVES OF GRASS" "One's self I sing, a simple separate person." Whitman's experiences of life and of natural objects were to find expression in poetry of a new order. He was moved to undertake this formidable poetic work by his sense of the great materials which America could offer for a really American poetry, and by his contempt for the current work of his compatriots Thus incited to poetic self-expression, Whitman [writes Mr. Conway] wrote on a sheet of paper, in large letters, these words: MAKE THE WORK, and fixed it above his table, where he could always see it while writing. Thenceforth every cloud that flitted over him, every distant sail, every face and form encountered, wrote a line in his book.1 Leaves of Grass, indeed (I cannot too often reiterate), has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature--an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, in America), freely, fully, and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me. But it is not on Leaves of Grass distinctively as literature, or a specimen thereof, that f feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or as aiming mainly toward art, or mtlieticism.2 1 Prefatory notice, by W. M. Rossetti, to Poems by Walt Whitman. 1 A Backward Glance, etc.; the italics of the last sentence are ours. This passage may be taken as explanatory of much that appears objectionable (in many ways) in Whitman's writings. Whitman named his book after the grass, "which makes a carpet over the earth, and which is a sign and a presence rather than a form."1 Of the matter...
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Whitman's classic poem celebrating himself and the American experience.
Download or read book Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass written by W. H. Trimble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass: An Introduction The first five years of the future poet's life were spent in the country but in 1824 his parents moved into Brooklyn, where the boy Walt received such rudimentary education as was procurable at that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature.
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass written by W. H. Trimble and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves of grass by W Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re Scripting Walt Whitman written by Ed Folsom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together thewriter’s life with an examination of his works. · An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. · Weaves together the writer’s life with anexamination of his works. · Focuses especially on Whitman’s evolvingmasterpiece Leaves of Grass. · Examines the material conditions and products ofWhitman’s “scripted life”, including his originalmanuscripts. · Investigates Whitman’s “life in print”– his belief that he could literally embody himself in hisbooks. · Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman’swork at www.whitmanarchive.org
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.
Download or read book Leaves of grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collage of Myself written by Matt Miller and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman---who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play---was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers." Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to "cut and paste" his lines into ever evolving forms based on what he called "spinal ideas." This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later know as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art. Using the Walt Whitman Archive's collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of the great American literary icon.
