Walt Whitman : the song of himself / Jerome Loving. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, (c)1999.Description: xiv, 568 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • PS3231
  • PS3231.L911.W358 1999
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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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.

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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