Name: Poems
SKU: 58162944
Price: 941.00 TWD
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Author: Whitman, Walt
ISBN: 9789356562752

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Double 9 Booksllp

Language

English

Pages

258

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9789356562752

Synopsis "Poems"

Walt Whiteman is one of the most famous and inspiring American poets. A poet who is widely considered as the American father of free verses. His most famous work is "Leaves of Grass", it was first published in the year 1855 by Walt Whiteman himself. This book is a collection of poems and verses by Walt Whiteman, he often celebrates love, friendship, democracy and nature through his work. His major concern was to introspect, explore and celebrate his own self and his personality and secondly he wanted to eulogize democracy and the American nation with its achievements and potential. His work continues to receive huge readership across generations and the fact that he mostly wrote his poems in first person makes it even more meaningful. By reading his astonishing work one learns to appreciate the things and find beauty within.

Walt Whitman

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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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