Author: Edwin Almiron GreenlawPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Meditations of Walt Whitman
Author: Chris HighlandPublisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 089997614X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Carry Walt Whitman’s wisdom with you in this inspirational guide that features 60 selections from his most insightful poems. Walt Whitman, the great American poet of the 19th century (1819–1892), celebrated his body, the land, the commonest of people, the plants and leaves, and the cosmos in Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. Working variously as a printer, journalist, teacher, and Civil War nurse, Whitman traveled across the continent, soaking the ink of the wilds and the urban into his pen. His poetry is an invitation into the wilds of Nature and human nature. In Meditations of Walt Whitman, editor Chris Highland pairs 60 short selections from Whitman’s poetry with a relevant quote from a historical or contemporary writer and thinker, from Aristotle to Alice Walker, Lord Byron to Arthur C. Clarke. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips. Let Whitman’s words enrich your experience as you ponder the wilderness from riverbank, mountaintop, or as you relax beside your campfire. Inside you’ll find: 60 inspiring selections of poetry from Walt Whitman Relevant text from other philosophical minds Short excerpts for convenient reading This sampler from Whitman’s poems draws from the heart of each passage. Let Whitman’s words accompany you on your own trails of discovery and help you discover the earth, your likeness.
Walt Whitman
Author: John Cann BaileyPublisher:
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Old English Poetry
Author: John Duncan Ernst SpaethPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Geoffrey Hill
Author: John LyonPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199586608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A collection of scholarly essays on Geoffrey Hill, including pioneering work by Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, which provides insights into the cultural, literary, political, and theological complexities of a figure thought by many to be the finest living English poet.
Leaves of grass (v. 1-3)
Author: Walt WhitmanSentences and Thinking
Author: Norman FoersterPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312206192
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
In this provocative edition, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents more than 200 of Whitman's finest poems, written during the creative and sexual prime of his life. Line drawings. 7 photos.
Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
Author: Walt WhitmanMilitary Essays and Recollections
Author: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of IllinoisPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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