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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... democracy, he represented in his writings the total range of experience. He was the first poet to treat sex candidly and to explore same-sex love with subtlety. Among the other distinctive features of his poetry were his all-embracing ...
... democracy, he represented in his writings the total range of experience. He was the first poet to treat sex candidly and to explore same-sex love with subtlety. Among the other distinctive features of his poetry were his all-embracing ...
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David S. Reynolds. Whitman had a messianic vision of himself as the quintessential democratic poet who could help cure the many ills of his materialistic, politically fractured society. Having absorbed America, he expected America to ...
David S. Reynolds. Whitman had a messianic vision of himself as the quintessential democratic poet who could help cure the many ills of his materialistic, politically fractured society. Having absorbed America, he expected America to ...
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... Democratic weekly the Long Island Patriot. Clements lost his position after a scandalous lawsuit and was replaced by the paper's foreman printer, William Hartshorne. A sedate old man who had known Washington and Jefferson, Hartshorne ...
... Democratic weekly the Long Island Patriot. Clements lost his position after a scandalous lawsuit and was replaced by the paper's foreman printer, William Hartshorne. A sedate old man who had known Washington and Jefferson, Hartshorne ...
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... Democratic newspaper, mainly prose sketches, manifest his fascination with the street life and cultural scene of Brooklyn and Manhattan. He also became involved in the growing controversy over slavery. A free-soil Democrat, he used the ...
... Democratic newspaper, mainly prose sketches, manifest his fascination with the street life and cultural scene of Brooklyn and Manhattan. He also became involved in the growing controversy over slavery. A free-soil Democrat, he used the ...
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... Democrats. Bitter over the unpopularity of the free-soil cause and at loose ends professionally, Whitman began scribbling vitriolic political poems. In one he excoriated weak Northern “doughfaces” who tolerated the spread of slavery. In ...
... Democrats. Bitter over the unpopularity of the free-soil cause and at loose ends professionally, Whitman began scribbling vitriolic political poems. In one he excoriated weak Northern “doughfaces” who tolerated the spread of slavery. In ...
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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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