Stones From a Glass House (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Jane Helen Findlater

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331644100 ISBN 13 : 9781331644101

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How illness, poverty, and public conflict shaped Whitman’s later voice and vision

This thoughtful study examines how hardship deepened Walt Whitman’s later poetry and public persona. It traces how illness, poverty, and war-time strain influenced his themes, tone, and spiritual outlook. Whitman's evolving voice is explored through close reading of his later works, including how adversity reframes his optimism and democratic ideals. The author situates Whitman in a broader historical moment, showing how personal trials intersect with public life and literary innovation.

• How illness, old age, and poverty affected Whitman’s poetry and self‑image
• How public conflict and war-era experiences shape his later verse
• How the poet’s faith in possibility adapts to hardship without losing core ideals
• How the edition’s notes illuminate the ongoing dialogue between biography and poetry

Ideal for readers with interest in Whitman, literary biography, and the ways personal suffering can inform artistic voice.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Stones From a Glass House

"Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones" - Old Proverb.

Some one somewhere has said that proverbs are the concentrated wisdom of the ages. But even the wisdom of many generations may, in certain cases, be questioned; and the writer ventures to assert that dwellers in glass houses are, by their very residence there, privileged to throw a few stones.

In plainer words: the writer of fiction surely knows more than the mere reader of it, about the merits or defects of a story. To have attempted to write fiction is to know its difficulties; and a realisation of these gives at once more leniency and more severity to criticism. The novelist will always judge technical faults severely; because he knows that it is generally possible to avoid such blemishes by care and skill.

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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331644100
• ISBN 13: 9781331644101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
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