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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... religion better?—Any art? Just cheer!” Although his verse encompassed the dark features of experience—death, insanity, loneliness, spiritual torment—it ultimately affirmed the delight and sanctity of life. Whitman had a messianic vision ...
... religion better?—Any art? Just cheer!” Although his verse encompassed the dark features of experience—death, insanity, loneliness, spiritual torment—it ultimately affirmed the delight and sanctity of life. Whitman had a messianic vision ...
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... religion. His fondness for his father, however, did not match the intensity of his love for his mother. Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, though barely literate and sometimes hypochondriac, was imaginative, a good storyteller, and the family ...
... religion. His fondness for his father, however, did not match the intensity of his love for his mother. Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, though barely literate and sometimes hypochondriac, was imaginative, a good storyteller, and the family ...
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... religions on the same level and tried to extract from them basic moral principles, was handed down to him through his father, who had known Thomas Paine in his youth and who subscribed to the Free Enquirer, the radical journal edited by ...
... religions on the same level and tried to extract from them basic moral principles, was handed down to him through his father, who had known Thomas Paine in his youth and who subscribed to the Free Enquirer, the radical journal edited by ...
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... religious certainty. While working for the Democrat he lived at the home of its editor, James J. Brenton, whose wife found Whitman indolent and uncouth. Between 1841 and 1845 Whitman was in Manhattan working as a journalist and printer ...
... religious certainty. While working for the Democrat he lived at the home of its editor, James J. Brenton, whose wife found Whitman indolent and uncouth. Between 1841 and 1845 Whitman was in Manhattan working as a journalist and printer ...
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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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