Walt WhitmanOxford University Press, 7 янв. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 176 From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. But perhaps nothing influenced Whitman more than the political events of his lifetime, as the struggle over slavery threatened to rip apart the national fabric. America, he believed, desperately needed a poet to hold together a society that was on the verge of unraveling. He created his powerful, all-absorbing poetic "I" to heal a fragmented nation that, he hoped, would find in his poetry new possibilities for inspiration and togetherness. Reynolds also examines the influence of theater, describing how Whitman's favorite actor, the tragedian Junius Brutus Booth--"one of the grandest revelations of my life"--developed a powerfully emotive stage style that influenced Leaves of Grass, which took passionate poetic expression to new heights. Readers will also discover how from the new medium of photography Whitman learned democratic realism and offered in his poetry "photographs" of common people engaged in everyday activities. Reynolds concludes with an appraisal of Whitman's impact on American letters, an influence that remains strong today. Solidly grounded in historical and biographical facts, and exceptionally wide-ranging in the themes it treats, Walt Whitman packs a dazzling amount of insight into a compact volume. |
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... wrote, “the world's current times and deeds, and their spirit, must first be profoundly estimated.”3 He described himself as a poet “attracting [the nation] body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love ...
... wrote, “the world's current times and deeds, and their spirit, must first be profoundly estimated.”3 He described himself as a poet “attracting [the nation] body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love ...
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... Whitman.8 After teaching sporadically for four years, Whitman grew tired of the classroom and the provincial students he had to deal with. Exasperated by his job in the Woodbury school, he called himself “a miserable kind of dog” and wrote ...
... Whitman.8 After teaching sporadically for four years, Whitman grew tired of the classroom and the provincial students he had to deal with. Exasperated by his job in the Woodbury school, he called himself “a miserable kind of dog” and wrote ...
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... wrote “The Sun-Down Papers,” a series of short prose pieces, including a didactic essay that denounced the use of ... Whitman indolent and uncouth. Between 1841 and 1845 Whitman was in Manhattan working as a journalist and printer for ...
... wrote “The Sun-Down Papers,” a series of short prose pieces, including a didactic essay that denounced the use of ... Whitman indolent and uncouth. Between 1841 and 1845 Whitman was in Manhattan working as a journalist and printer for ...
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... year-old brother Jeff, Walt traveled south by train and boat, arriving in New ... wrote, “O magnet-South! Oglistening perfumed South! my South!”12 In late May ... Whitman began scribbling vitriolic political poems. In one he excoriated ...
... year-old brother Jeff, Walt traveled south by train and boat, arriving in New ... wrote, “O magnet-South! Oglistening perfumed South! my South!”12 In late May ... Whitman began scribbling vitriolic political poems. In one he excoriated ...
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POPULAR CULTURE CITY LIFE AND POLITICS | 24 |
THEATER ORATORY AND MUSIC | 41 |
THE VISUAL ARTS | 57 |
SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION | 76 |
SEX GENDER AND COMRADESHIP | 101 |
THE CIVIL WAR LINCOLN AND RECONSTRUCTION | 123 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 141 |
NOTES | 143 |
NOTES ON FURTHER READING | 153 |
INDEX | 155 |
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