Essential Whitman

by Walt Whitman

2020-11-23 10:46:52

From the introduction by Galway Kinnell:The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitm... Read more

From the introduction by Galway Kinnell:

The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense. . . . Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world. . . . Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.

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Book Details

File size7.12 X 4.5 X 0.52 in
Print pages208
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date March 14, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060887926
Walter Whitman (Born in West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, The United States May 31, 1819, Died: March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of ...

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