TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loving,Jerome
TI  - Walt Whitman: The song of himself 
SN  - 9780520226876 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS3231  .L68 2000
PY  - 2000///, c1999
CY  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
N1  - Originally published: 1999; 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
N2  - 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
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