Author: Anne Brown AdairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Walt Whitman's Influence on Carl Sandburg
Author: Anne Brown AdairThe Influence of Walt Whitman on Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg
Author: Viva Elizabeth HaughtPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg
Author: Maya MillerPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A Comparison of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg
Author: Henrietta SadlerFrom Whitman to Sandburg in American Poetry
Author: Bruce WeirickPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In Reckless Ecstasy
Author: Carl SandburgPublisher:
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Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Carl Sandburg
Author: Gay Wilson AllenPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452909601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Biographical information accompanies a discussion on Sandburg's major works and an evaluation of his impact on American literature
Walt Whitman Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walt Whitman (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 its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman's own life came under scrutiny for his presumed homosexuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. At age 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. As a child and through much of his career he resided in Brooklyn. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. 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. Two of his well known poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", were written on the death of Abraham Lincoln. After a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at age 72, his funeral was a public event. Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Smith Whitall 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." (wikipedia.org)
Abraham Lincoln
Author: Carl SandburgPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person
Author: John BurroughsPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The first biographical study of the poet, written by his close friend who was later to gain fame as a naturalist.