The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil WarOxford University Press, 27 июл. 2000 г. - Всего страниц: 288 For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest account of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties, he began visiting the camp's wounded and found his calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's "most unlikely hero," a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood. Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Better Angel explores a side of Whitman not fully examined before, one that greatly enriches our understanding of his later poetry. Moreover, it gives us a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the "other army"--the legions of sick and wounded soldiers who are usually left in the shadowy background of Civil War history--seen here through the unflinching eyes of America's greatest poet. |
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... young men who filled the military hospitals, the convalescent camps, and the cemeteries—ensured his importance as a wartime witness. Indeed, so closely did Whitman become associated with the war that his friend William D. O'Connor ...
... young men who filled the military hospitals, the convalescent camps, and the cemeteries—ensured his importance as a wartime witness. Indeed, so closely did Whitman become associated with the war that his friend William D. O'Connor ...
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... young disciple John Burroughs was even more adamant. ''Think of belittling him because he did not enlist as a soldier,'' Burroughs complained. ''Could there be anything more shocking and incongruous than Whitman killing people? One ...
... young disciple John Burroughs was even more adamant. ''Think of belittling him because he did not enlist as a soldier,'' Burroughs complained. ''Could there be anything more shocking and incongruous than Whitman killing people? One ...
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... young men, Union and Confederate, who proved on the temples of their own bodies that they cared about a cause more than they cared about themselves. Walt Whitman, in turn, cared about them. ''The dead, the dead, the dead, our dead,'' he ...
... young men, Union and Confederate, who proved on the temples of their own bodies that they cared about a cause more than they cared about themselves. Walt Whitman, in turn, cared about them. ''The dead, the dead, the dead, our dead,'' he ...
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... young man several years his junior. He was currently spending most of his days like today, riding alongside New York's hardbitten stagecoach drivers as they made their way through the city's teeming streets. His nights were spent at ...
... young man several years his junior. He was currently spending most of his days like today, riding alongside New York's hardbitten stagecoach drivers as they made their way through the city's teeming streets. His nights were spent at ...
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... young disciple Horace Traubel: ''I don't know if you have ever realized . . . what it means to be a horror in the sight of the people about you: but there was a time when I felt it to the full—when the enemy—and nearly all were the ...
... young disciple Horace Traubel: ''I don't know if you have ever realized . . . what it means to be a horror in the sight of the people about you: but there was a time when I felt it to the full—when the enemy—and nearly all were the ...
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A Sight in Camp | |
The Great Army of the Sick | |
The Real Precious Royal Ones of This Land | |
CHAPTER FIVE | |
Retrievements Out of the Night | |
Lose Not My Sons | |
Bibliography | |
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