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2) Walt Whitman
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Walt Whitman.
3) Walt Whitman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But today, he's recognized as one of America's founding poets, a man who changed American literature forever. Throughout his life, Walt journeyed everywhere, from New York to New Orleans, Washington D.C. to Denver, taking in all that America had to offer
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English
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As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. Whitman never published the cycle. Instead he cut them up, rearranged them, and hid them in...
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Publisher
PBS Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit...
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 92
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Leaves of Grass, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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Language
English
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"In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan--rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug...
19) Poetry for students: Volume 22presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
20) Poetry for students: Volume 13presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Series
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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