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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0517567075
ISBN-13: 9780517567074
Dec 1987
Publisher: Random House Inc
61 pages
Illustrated
The Great American Poets
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet., Whitman's poetry, with its energetic style, looseness of form, and breadth of subject matter, revolutionized American writing. His declared intention was to create poetry that was distinctively American, "to give something to our literature that will be our own..."--a democratic vision that encompassed and celebrated all races and classes. Whitman's technique often involved making lists of the wonders and varieties of the human experience: contraltos, carpenters, duck-shooters, lunatics, machinists, immigrants, reformers, squaws, deckhands, millgirls, opium eaters, the President, fishermen, patriarchs, old folks--all these categories of people, plus hundreds more, appear in his work. He referred to himself in a poem as "Walt Whitman, an American.../Disorderly, fleshly and sensual," and he prophesied his own popularity when he wrote, "Missing me in one place search another,/I stop somewhere waiting for you."
| Details | | Series: | The Great American Poets |
| Size | | Length: | 61 pages | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.8 oz |
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 1999 - $7.25 Save 77%
Paperback, 2000 - $6.71 Save 69%
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