Selected Poems (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Whitman, Walt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486268780 ISBN 13: 9780486268781

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

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Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass. Selections include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" ― all reprinted from an authoritative text.

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One of America's most influential and innovative poets, Walt Whitman (1819–92) worked as a teacher, journalist, and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. Proclaimed as the nation's first "poet of democracy," Whitman reached out to common readers and opposed censorship with his overt celebrations of sexuality

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Walt Whitman was born in 1819. He worked as a journalist and newspaper editor for many years before the appearance of his Leaves of Grass in 1855. This is a collection of his work aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no explanatory or critical apparatus.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0486268780
• ISBN 13: 9780486268781
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italien