Name: hojas de hierba (in Spanish)
SKU: 1064101
Price: 1123.00 TWD
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Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9789875500952

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Walt Whitman

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Synopsis "hojas de hierba (in Spanish)"

Walt Whitman, inaugurador del verso libre, pensaba que las épicas del Viejo Mundo correspondían a una época feudal y quiso construir una épica diferente, apta para el Nuevo Mundo y los nuevos tiempos democráticos; su propósito fue mostrar la sacralidad de cada hecho material y el designio divino presente en la partícula más ínfima (como una hoja de hierba).Esta es la hierba que crece dondequiera que haya tierra y agua, Este es el aire común que baña el globo. A fines de 1891, en su lecho de muerte, Whitman ponía su rúbrica a la novena edición de Hojas de hierba. Entre 1855 y 1892, su extraño y desigual volumen de poemas tuvo un desarrollo irregular como el de un organismo vivo, pero por detrás había una voluntad de unidad y de coherencia. Whitman quiso que quedara impresa para siempre en su libro la personalidad (real o ideal) del héroe de su saga, el hombre democrático, y su gradual avance hacia el ámbito en el que rige la gravitación irresistible de la Ley Espiritual. Este carácter unitario de Hojas de

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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