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| Original Title: | Selected Poems |
| ISBN: | 0486268780 (ISBN13: 9780486268781) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Walt Whitman
Paperback | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 4.11 | 2217 Users | 52 Reviews
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| Title | : | Selected Poems |
| Author | : | Walt Whitman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1991 by Dover Publications (first published 1892) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Literature. Fiction |
Chronicle To Books Selected Poems
In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature.This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses. Featured works include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" — all reprinted from an authoritative text.
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Ratings: 4.11 From 2217 Users | 52 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Selected Poems
For Harold Bloom, there are six major poems ("Song of Myself," "The Sleepers," "Elemental Drifts," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," the Keatsian ode, and the elegy for Lincoln), comprising 133 pp. of this 220 pp. Selected. Then, as is the habit of Whitman editors for generations, now, Bloom has the notion to put together an ur Leaves, one that begins -- as Whitman himself jettisoned the prose preface in 1860 and frontispieces a "Proto Leaf" -- with the draft-notes from a 1921 Doubleday edition LeavesI have read as much I could!I have read apostrophes - long, exhaustive lists of apostrophes!I have felt for the common manI have felt for the common womanYet I have found myself skimming, and rarely pausing. O these poems are coherent and distinctive.O they have their moments and doubtless somewhere amongst their long sentences and long stanzas there are jewels.But I now think of Whitman's contemporaries : of Robert Browning with longing, of Arnold with respect, and allow that even Tennyson may
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Some very good Whitman poetry in this collection; not his best, but some good things. A pantheist or Pagan at heart, he seems to try to take in everything and give it back to us. He can be enormously touching in Leaves of Grass. His stanzas on death are awe inspiring. In the end, he is in love with language as language. Words are diamonds for him and he sees his job as arranging those precious stones in a perfect necklace.
I pretty much enjoyed getting to know Whitman. At times he was pretty verbose! Many of the poems I read out loud. They just sound better that way. There is such rhythm and lovely sounds of syllables singing. The Lilac poem is very poignant. Dim lit churches, shuddering organs, tolling, tolling bells' perpetual clang...how vivid. I like how each section will use the same word to start each line. Also the repeat of certain words just emphasizes the mood.He seemed to enjoy celebrating America and
This selection of Whitman's poetry is divided into seven parts and includes the complete text of "Song of Myself"...From I...I am your voice - It was tied in you - In me it begins to talk.I celebrate myself to celebrate every man and woman alive;I loosen the tongue that was tied in them,It begins to talk out of my mouth.I celebrate myself to celebrate you:I say the same word for every man and woman alive.And I say that the soul is not greater than the body,And I say that the body is not greater
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