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Vor einem Tag · Learn about the life and work of Walt Whitman, an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and the father of free verse.
Vor 4 Tagen · Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, is a landmark in the history of American literature. His aim was to transcend traditional epics and to eschew normal aesthetic form.
- Walt Whitman spent his childhood in New York, where he was first employed at age 12 as a printer. He later held jobs as a newspaper editor and a sc...
- The verse collection Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s best-known work. He revised and added to the collection throughout his life, producing ultim...
- Walt Whitman’s poetry was innovative for its verse style and for the way it challenged traditional narratives. He championed the individual soul ov...
Vor 5 Tagen · Whitman’s aim was to transcend traditional epics, to eschew normal aesthetic form, and yet by reflecting American society to enable the poet and his readers to realize themselves and the nature of their American experience.
Vor 5 Tagen · Walt Whitman is known primarily for Leaves of Grass, though it is actually more than one book. During Whitman’s lifetime it went through nine editions, each with its own distinct virtues and faults. Whitman compared the finished book to a cathedral long under construction, and on another occasion to a tree, with its cumulative rings
Vor 5 Tagen · Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel. Daniel Dell Blake doesn’t want to fit in. He wants the right to stand out. But in a small fictional town of Elysium, New York, that’s a dangerous wish. Blake is the main character in - Song of Myself: A Novel.
Vor 5 Tagen · Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel. Daniel Dell Blake doesn’t want to fit in. He wants the right to stand out. But in a small fictional town of Elysium, New York, that’s a dangerous wish. Blake is the main character in - Song of Myself: A Novel.
Vor 5 Tagen · Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel Gay rights pioneer Arnie Kantrowitz shelved dreams of publishing his novel. Three years after his death, his partner fulfils his wish.
