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Walt Whitman : The song of himself / Jerome Loving.
Publication details: University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.: 2000, c1999.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: XIV, 568 p., [48 p. plates.] : ill., ports ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780520226876 (pbk.) :
- 0520226879 (pbk.) :
- PS3231 .L68 2000
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Summary: A biography of Walt whitman, the 19th century writer hailed as the father of American poetry. It traces his life as a printer and journalist, before his self-published collection, Leaves of Grass, brought him fame. He was a great promoter, going so far as to write his own book reviews for newspapers. As a poet, he rejected regular meter and rhyme in favor of free verse and blazed the trail as a writer of erotica.
Caresser of life -- Thousand singers, a thousand songs - Some literary person -- Heart-songs in Brooklyn -- Crescent City sojourn -- Simmering, simmering, simmering -- Beginning of a great career -- New American Bible -- Calamus and the National Calamity -- True love -- Good old cause -- Dalliances of eagles -- Good-bye my fancy.
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| PS 3200 .F81 1949 Leaves of grass and selected prose / | PS 3200 .F96 1996 Poetry and prose / | PS 3203 .B624 2003 Selected poems / | PS 3231 .L68 2000 Walt Whitman : The song of himself / | PS 3231 .Z87 1986 Walt Whitman : the making of the poet / | PS 3232 .T7 With Walt Whitman in Camden / | PS 3232 .T7 With Walt Whitman in Camden / |
Originally published: 1999.
A biography of Walt whitman, the 19th century writer hailed as the father of American poetry. It traces his life as a printer and journalist, before his self-published collection, Leaves of Grass, brought him fame. He was a great promoter, going so far as to write his own book reviews for newspapers. As a poet, he rejected regular meter and rhyme in favor of free verse and blazed the trail as a writer of erotica.
Caresser of life -- Thousand singers, a thousand songs - Some literary person -- Heart-songs in Brooklyn -- Crescent City sojourn -- Simmering, simmering, simmering -- Beginning of a great career -- New American Bible -- Calamus and the National Calamity -- True love -- Good old cause -- Dalliances of eagles -- Good-bye my fancy.
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