Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794211
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America’s most important poets. In discussing letter-writing, Whitman made his own views clear. Simplicity and naturalness were his guidelines. “I like my letters to be personal—very personal—and then stop.” The six volumes in The Correspondence comprise nearly 3,000 letters written over a half century, revealing Whitman the person as no other documents can. Volume I includes the poet’s correspondence from Washington, DC, during the Civil War, where he nursed wounded and dying soldiers. In letters to his mother, Whitman describes the suffering and sorrow he encountered in unsanitary hospitals. He wrote to the parents of soldiers and offered hope—or consolation at the loss of an unsung hero. Soldiers who recovered and left the hospitals often wrote to Whitman, and he replied with friendly advice and paternal solicitude. As Whitman himself admitted, rarely was his heart so engaged as in these hospital scenes and war letters, which, like his greatest poems, reflect his characteristic themes—love and death.
The Correspondence, 1842-1867
Souvenir Volume Commemorating the Dedication of the New Buildings
Author: Second Baptist church (St. Louis)
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Category : Baptist church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Publisher:
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Category : Baptist church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The Manual of Statistics
Record of Christian Work
Author: Alexander McConnell
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Includes music.
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Includes music.
General Catalogue of Amherst College
The Constitutional Year Book
Author:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Chronological Outlines of English Literature
Author: Frederick Ryland
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Årsskrift
The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Includes list of members.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Includes list of members.