Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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Walt Whitman was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a carpenter. He left school when he was 11 years old to take a variety of jobs. By the time he was 15, Whitman was living on his own in New York City, working as a printer and writing short pieces for newspapers. He toon meer spent a few years teaching, but most of his work was either in journalism or politics. Gradually, Whitman became a regular contributor to a variety of Democratic Party newspapers and reviews, and early in his career established a rather eccentric way of life, spending a great deal of time walking the streets, absorbing life and talking with laborers. Extremely fond of the opera, he used his press pass to spend many evenings in the theater. In 1846, Whitman became editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading Democratic newspaper. Two years later, he was fired for opposing the expansion of slavery into the west. Whitman's career as a poet began in 1885, with the publication of the first edition of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The book was self-published (Whitman probably set some of the type himself), and despite his efforts to publicize it - including writing his own reviews - few people read it. One reader who did appreciate it was essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote a letter greeting Whitman at "the beginning of a great career." Whitman's poetry was unlike any verse that had ever been seen. Written without rhyme, in long, loose lines, filled with poetic lists and exclamations taken from Whitman's reading of the Bible, Homer, and Asian poets, these poems were totally unlike conventional poetry. Their subject matter, too, was unusual - the celebration of a free-spirited individualist whose love for all things and people seemed at times disturbingly sensual. In 1860, with the publication of the third edition on Leaves of Grass, Whitman alienated conventional thinkers and writers even more. When he went to Boston to meet Emerson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poet James Russell Lowell, they all objected to the visit. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Whitman's attentions turned almost exclusively to that conflict. Some of the greatest poetry of his career, including Drum Taps (1865) and his magnificent elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, "When Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865), was written during this period. In 1862, his brother George was wounded in battle, and Whitman went to Washington to nurse him. He continued as a hospital volunteer throughout the war, nursing other wounded soldiers and acting as a benevolent father-figure and confidant. Parts of his memoir Specimen Days (1882) record this period. After the war, Whitman stayed on in Washington, working as a government clerk and continuing to write. In 1873 he suffered a stroke and retired to Camden, New Jersey, where he lived as an invalid for the rest of his life. Ironically, his reputation began to grow during this period, as the public became more receptive to his poetic and personal eccentricities. Whitman tried to capture the spirit of America in a new poetic form. His poetry is rough, colloquial, sweeping in its vistas - a poetic equivalent of the vast land and its varied peoples. Critic Louis Untermeyer has written, "In spite of Whitman's perplexing mannerisms, the poems justify their boundless contradictions. They shake themselves free from rant and bombastic audacities and rise into the clear air of major poetry. Such poetry is not large but self-assured; it knows, as Whitman asserted, the amplitude of time and laughs at dissolution. It contains continents; it unfolds the new heaven and new earth of the Western world." American poetry has never been the same since Whitman tore it away from its formal and thematic constraints, and he is considered by virtually all critics today to be one of the greatest poets the country has ever produced. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will… (1842) 72 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume II: Poems: 1860-1867 (1959) 71 exemplaren
Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers (1995) — Auteur — 59 exemplaren
Leaves Of Grass - Selected And With An Introduction By Christopher Morley - Illustrations By Lewis C. Daniel (1939) 45 exemplaren
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of… (2019) 40 exemplaren
Leaves of grass: Including Sands at seventy, first annex, Good-by my fancy, second annex, A backward glance o'er… (1907) 33 exemplaren
The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War (1999) 33 exemplaren
The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser,… (2014) 29 exemplaren
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (2005) 25 exemplaren
Walt Whitman 20 exemplaren
Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1934) 17 exemplaren
Leaves of grass including a fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of gathered… (1900) 16 exemplaren
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (1949) 13 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856 (1980) 12 exemplaren
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Lewis Daniel Doubleday Doran 1940 in Slipcase (1940) — Auteur — 11 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass with an introduction by gay wilson allen.signet classic, ct23. (paperback) (1960) 9 exemplaren
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa Whitman Series) (2011) 8 exemplaren
Walt Whitman Poetry Collection: Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and A Complete Biography of Walt Whitman (2020) 7 exemplaren
Two prefaces 7 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume III: Poems: 1870-1891 (1980) 7 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass a selection of Poems — Auteur — 6 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass - The Deathbed Edition Complete with 400 Poems (Reader's Library Classics) (2022) 5 exemplaren
Walt Whitman's Blue Book : The 1860-61 Leaves of grass containing his manuscript, additations, and revisions (2010) 5 exemplaren
The Works of Walt Whitman (The Deathbed Edition): Volume II, The Collected Prose (1968) 5 exemplaren
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 5 exemplaren
Works of Walt Whitman. Including Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days, Drum Taps & more (mobi) (2008) 5 exemplaren
From This Soil, Selected Poems By Walt Whitman 5 exemplaren
Digte 5 exemplaren
Walt Whitman's Poems. Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Charles T. Davis (Evergreen Books. no. 161.) (1955) 4 exemplaren
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves Of Grass, Drum-Taps, The Patriotic Poems, The Wound Dresser and More (89… (2013) 4 exemplaren
Greatest Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Good-Bye My Fancy, Specimen Days, Collect, November Boughs,… (2012) 4 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila ’91-2 3 exemplaren
Song of the Broad-Axe 3 exemplaren
Starting from Paumanok 3 exemplaren
The Correspondence of Walt Whitman Volume VI: A Supplement with a Composite Index (1977) 3 exemplaren
La quercia 3 exemplaren
Manly Health and Training: With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions - New American Edition (2016) 3 exemplaren
The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Walt Whitman 3 exemplaren
Canti d'addio 3 exemplaren
Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles (Library of Southern Civilization) (2022) 3 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila. ‘84 3 exemplaren
The Song of the Open Road 3 exemplaren
Calamus : a series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle) (2015) 3 exemplaren
The Works of Walt Whitman in Two Volumes as Prepared By Him for the Deathbed Edition. Vol. 1: the Collected Poetry.… (1968) 3 exemplaren
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman (Crown Classics) 2 exemplaren
Pictures : a poem 2 exemplaren
An English and an American poet 2 exemplaren
Canto de mí mismo y otros poemas ; seguido de Una mirada a los caminos recorridos (1997) 2 exemplaren
Two Rivulets 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass (Selection) I 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass Washington, D.C. ‘72 2 exemplaren
Calamus, letters to Peter Doyle 2 exemplaren
Selections from Whitman 2 exemplaren
Folhas das folhas da relva 2 exemplaren
Slang in America 2 exemplaren
Ich rufe Erde und Meer an 2 exemplaren
Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks and Fragments (2020) 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass, Comprising all the Poems ...following the Arrangement of the 1891 - 92 Edition. [Modern Library Giant… (1961) 2 exemplaren
Walt Whitman : Walt Whitman's autograph revision of the analysis of Leaves of grass (for Dr. R. M. Bucke's… 2 exemplaren
Short Stories 2 exemplaren
Poesía completa Edición bilingüe Tomo III 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass 2 exemplaren
Walt Whitman and the Civil War : a collection of original articles and manuscripts (1999) 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) (1965) 2 exemplaren
Collection of American Poetry: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth… (2010) 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass, edited by Emory Holloway 2 exemplaren
Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems 2 exemplaren
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. Includes; Inscriptions; Song of Myself; Children of Adam; Calamus; Song of Open Road;… (1942) 2 exemplaren
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up: Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Iowa Whitman Series) (2021) 2 exemplaren
The best of Whitman 2 exemplaren
Collected writings 2 exemplaren
Two Rivulets, Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [And As a Strong Bird On Pinions… (2012) 1 exemplaar
Specimen Days and a collection 1 exemplaar
Prefácios a Folhas de Erva 1 exemplaar
Two Rivulets 1 exemplaar
The Correspondence, Vol. I: 1842-1867 1 exemplaar
The Correspondence, Vol. IV: 1886-1889 1 exemplaar
Song of the Exposition 1 exemplaar
Selections From Leaves Of Grass 1 exemplaar
Poems of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman Abroad 1 exemplaar
Poemas esenciales 1 exemplaar
Życie i przygody Jacka Engle'a 1 exemplaar
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Prosaschriften 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman's Blue Book 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass - Foglie d'erba 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) 1 exemplaar
Leaves of grass (1855-71) : Democratic vistas 1 exemplaar
Vidas ejemplares 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Whitman, Walt (2002) Paperback 1 exemplaar
Death of Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplaar
Three Poems 1 exemplaar
Prose Works 1892 Volume 2 1 exemplaar
Collected Works of Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
FIJE BARI 1 exemplaar
SEÇME ŞİİRLER 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass Everyman's Library 1 exemplaar
Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III 1 exemplaar
Prose Works 1892 Volume 1 1 exemplaar
behoor je werkelijk tot de volledige mensen? 1 exemplaar
The Correspondence Volume 1 1842-1867 1 exemplaar
Whitman_Leaves_of_Grass.mobi 1 exemplaar
DEMOKRACJA I PERSONALIZM 1 exemplaar
Miracles (excerpt) 1 exemplaar
diVersi 1 exemplaar
Sangen om migselv 1 exemplaar
“Starting from Paumanok” 1 exemplaar
“Sparkles from the Whell” 1 exemplaar
“Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” 1 exemplaar
“Broadway Pageant” 1 exemplaar
“When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” 1 exemplaar
"The Sleepers" 1 exemplaar
“I Sing the Body Electric” 1 exemplaar
“I Hear America Singing” 1 exemplaar
"A Woman Waits for Me" 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass C3 1 exemplaar
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 1 exemplaar
Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass Vol. LVIII-Number 1 1 exemplaar
Ecrits de jeunesse (Un endroit où aller t. 265) 1 exemplaar
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS (I) & DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Everyman's Library 1930 [Hardcover] unknown 1 exemplaar
Democracy's Poet: Walt Whitman A Celebration 1 exemplaar
Hymn on the Death of Lincoln 1 exemplaar
Obras Escogidas, Ensayo biografico critico version, notas y bibliografia de Concha Zardoya 1 exemplaar
“Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier” 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass - The People's Library 1 exemplaar
"An Old Man's Thoughts Of School" 1 exemplaar
American poetry 1 exemplaar
Manahatta 1 exemplaar
Complete Works of Walt Whitman "American Poet, Essayist, and Journalist"! 9 Complete Works (Patriotic Poems, Democratic… (2016) 1 exemplaar
Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplaar
Whitman's Poems 1 exemplaar
Canti scelti 1 exemplaar
Sangen om meg selv : av "Leaves of grass" 1 exemplaar
Choix de poèmes 1 exemplaar
Canção da estrada larga 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman, ses meilleures pages 1 exemplaar
Fremtidens historie 1 exemplaar
Freedom and Domination 1 exemplaar
Ruohonlehtiä 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems 1 exemplaar
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplaar
Song of the Redwood Tree 1 exemplaar
collected prose 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass Inclusive edition. From the text of the edition authorized and editorially supervised by his literary… (1926) 1 exemplaar
Gesang von der offenen Landstraße. Mit 6 ganzseitigen Original-Holzschnitten von William Tegtmeier. Druck in Schwarz… (1921) 1 exemplaar
Foglie D'erba 1855 1 exemplaar
Criticism : an unpublished essay 1 exemplaar
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings 1 exemplaar
Fuldkomne Dage 1 exemplaar
Domestic Vistas, and Other Papers 1 exemplaar
A Noiseless Patient Spider 1 exemplaar
Grashalme. Mit einem Essay v. Gustav Landauer 1 exemplaar
Hojas de Hierba - Tomo I 1 exemplaar
New York dissected : a sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass (1976) 1 exemplaar
Ich singe für dich, o Demokratie 1 exemplaar
A collection of poems. 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman (The Library of Great Poetry) 1 exemplaar
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 1 exemplaar
Excerpts from Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass, 1 exemplaar
Voices and Visions-Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitmans Werk in zwei Bänden 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 1 1 exemplaar
Poems by Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman, Conversaciones 1 exemplaar
Vida de Walt Whitman "El haragán magnífico" 1 exemplaar
Whitman Manuscripts at the University of Virginia (The Walt Whitman Archive, Vol 3, Pt. 1-2) (1993) 1 exemplaar
Lyrik und Prosa 1 exemplaar
Opere alese 1 exemplaar
Poèmes de Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
Blue Book: Volume II: Textual Analysis 1 exemplaar
Cîntec despre mine 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman's poems 1 exemplaar
Short Stories by Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
Kosmos 1 exemplaar
Poesías 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 2 1 exemplaar
Selected poetry-list poems 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 4 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 5 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 6 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 7 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 8 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 9 1 exemplaar
Complete Writings Vol. 10 1 exemplaar
Io canto me stesso 1 exemplaar
THREE POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN SET TO MUSIC BY R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1. NOCTURNE - 2. A CLEAR MIDNIGHT - 3. JOY, SHIPMATE,… (1925) 1 exemplaar
Eidolons 1 exemplaar
Canto di una vita immensa 1 exemplaar
Poems and prose 1 exemplaar
Leaves of grass, Democratic vistas, specimen days, with a biographical and critical introduction 1 exemplaar
a child's reminiscence 1 exemplaar
Werke 1 exemplaar
Demokratski vidici 1 exemplaar
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- Whitman, Walt
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- Whitman, Walter
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- Whitman, Walt
- Geboortedatum
- 1819-05-31
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- 1892-03-26
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- Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, USA
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- Camden, New Jersey, USA
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- miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis
- Woonplaatsen
- Washington, D.C., USA
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- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1930)
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- Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman resided in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the death of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he wrote his well known poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures. After a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at the age of 72, his funeral was a public event.
Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe argued: "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass ... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet ... He is America."
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