Bücher von Walt Whitman

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Strange as it may seem, the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the flowering rose or lily, as the ripen'd fruit to a tree, the apple or the peach, no matter how fine the trunk, or copious or rich the branches and foliage, here waits sine qua non at last. The stamp of entire and finish'd greatness to any nation, to the American Republic among the rest, must be sternly withheld till it has put what it stands for in the blossom of original, first-class poems. No imitations will do.

Hojas de hierba, publicada en 1855, es un libro de poemas del poeta estadounidense Walt Whitman. Entre los textos están: Canto de mí mismo, Yo canto al cuerpo eléctrico, De la cuna que se mece eternamente y, en las posteriores ediciones, la elegía al asesinado presidente Abraham Lincoln. El autor de Hojas de hierba, Walt Whitman, nació en el año 1819 en Nueva York, Estados Unidos y es considerado de forma unánime el máximo poeta estadounidense, es el supremo cantor del Yo y de la naturaleza, del cuerpo y del alma, de la igualdad del hombre y la mujer, de la fraternidad y la democracia. Los poemas de Hojas de hierba están conectados entre sí, cada uno representando la celebración de Whitman de su filosofía de la vida y de la humanidad. Este libro se caracteriza por su alegría y alabanza de los sentidos en un momento en el que las manifestaciones en primera persona y la expresión del uno mismo se consideraba inmoral.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic discussion of the theory of democracy and its possibilities. In this essay he protests the unrestrained materialism, greed, corruption and spiritual failure of what, two years later, Mark Twain would label "The Gilded Age." Whitman criticizes America for its "mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry" that mask an underlying "dry and flat Sahara" of soul. He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population: "Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does." Whitman was one of the few writers to keep the Emersonian faith in individual and cultural regeneration after the Civil War.

Whitman's 1870 collection of poems including not only Passage to India but many Civil war poems, main selections from Leaves of Grass, and other collections. This is Whitman's famous poem-sequence, now back in print after many years.This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries.

Presents Walt Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. This book consists of journal entries detailing his encounters with soldiers and doctors, his thoughts on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and his public exchanges with President Lincoln.

This new annotated edition inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles.