Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanAs a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259200659
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Excerpt from As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free: And Other Poems Tee impetus and ideas urging me, for some years past, to an utterance, or attempt at utterance, of New World songs, and an epic of Democracy, having already had their published expression, as well as I can expect to give it, in leaves or grass, the present and any future pieces from me are really but the surplusage forming after that Volume, or the wake eddying behind it. I fulfilled in that an imperious conviction, and the commands of my nature as total and irresistible as those which make the sen flow, or the globe revolve. But of this Supple mentary Volume, I confess I am not so certain. Having from early manhood abandoned the business pursuits and appli cations usual in my time and country, and obediently yielded myself up ever since to the impetus mentioned, and to the work of expressing those ideas, it may be that mere habit has got dominion of me, when there is no real need of saying any thing further. But what is life but an experiment? And mortality but an exer cise? With reference to results beyond. And so shall my poems be. If incomplete here, and superfluous there, n'impor te - the earnest trial and persistent exploration shall at least be mine, and other success failing, shall be success enough. I have been more anxious, anyhow, to suggest the songs of vital endeavor, and manly evolution, and furnish something for races of out door athletes, than to make perfect rhymes, or reign in the par lors. I ventured from the beginning, my own way, taking chances - and would keep on venturing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and Other Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879686673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Leaves of Grass. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanThe Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
Author: Ezra GreenspanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982516X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature and ambiguity: Whitman and photography, Whitman and feminist scholarship, Whitman and modernism, Whitman and the poetics of address, Whitman and the poetics of present participles, Whitman and Borges, Whitman and Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Civil War, Whitman and the politics of his era, and Whitman and the changing nature of his style in his later years. Addressed to an audience of students and general readers and written in a nontechnical prose designed to promote accessibility to the study of Whitman, this volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.
Through the Year with Famous Authors
Author: Mabel PattersonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Through the Year with Famous Authors" by Mabel Patterson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Author: Walt Whitman