Song of Myself - Couverture souple

Whitman, Walt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1607960095 ISBN 13 : 9781607960096

Editeur : BN Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Walt Whitman was born on 31 May 1819 in Long Island, New York. Without much formal education, he began work at an early age as an office boy, printer and school teacher. His first major collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass, was self-published in 1855. During the American Civil War, Whitman volunteered as a nurse at military hospitals in Washington, and his experiences inspired his next collection, Drum-Taps, published in 1865, and Memoranda During the War (1875). Whitman was an ardent Democrat, and wrote several poems to Abraham Lincoln, including ‘O Captain! My Captain’. His poetry was seen by many as immoral, and was the cause of his dismissal from a post as clerk in the Department of the Interior, but he won praise from his contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and his work was enthusiastically received by poetic circles in England. Having survived a paralysing stroke in 1873, Whitman left Washington for Camden, New Jersey, where he continued to write up until his death on 26 March 1892.

Revue de presse

"Grand but intimate, earthy but also dreamy" (Observer)

"Whitman had a fluid personality that made him able to ''merge'' invisibly, and with great empathy, with the images of other people and events that lodged in his mind...unprecedented assembling of rhythm, sound, language and images" (New York Times)

"The great unrhymed, long-lined, self-celebratory sensation of the 1850s" (Lost Angeles Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BN Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1607960095
• ISBN 13: 9781607960096
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible