| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 671 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-638) and index. |
| Contents |
"Underneath all, nativity" : literary genealogy, literary geography -- A Brooklyn boyhood : sights, surroundings, influences -- Dark passages : teaching and early authorship -- Mannahatta : the literary marketplace and urban reality -- "The United States need poets" : the political and social crisis -- American performances : theater, oratory, music -- "Sex is the root of it all" : eroticism and gender -- Earth, body, soul : science and religion -- Toward a popular aesthetic : the visual arts -- "I contain multitudes" : the first edition of Leaves of Grass -- |
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"The murderous delays" : in search of an audience -- Brotherly love, national war : into the 1860s -- "My book and the war are one" : the Washington years -- Reconstructing a nation, reconstructing a poet : postbellum institutions -- The burden of atlas : the new America -- The pope of Mickle Street : the final years. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- United States
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United States -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0394580230 : $35.00 ($49.00 Can.) |
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