Book summaryWhitman'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." |
Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Proseby Whitman, Walt
Book description: Library of America, 1982. The tip of the bottom corner is creased on four pages. The rest of the pages are in excellent condition. The jacket has scraped edges and corners. There is a tear on the rear cover and the top of the spine is creased and nicked as a result of people pulling at the book to slide the book from a shelf. The rear flap is bent from top to bottom along the left edge (almost creased). The binding is straight and strong.. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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