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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman, a life. New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1980 (OCoLC)644051331 |
Named Person: | Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Justin Kaplan |
ISBN: | 0671225421 9780671225421 |
OCLC Number: | 6305249 |
Awards: | National Book Award, 1981: Biography |
Description: | 432 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Mickle Street -- Burial house -- "Mother, father, water, earth, me" -- "The shadow and the light of a young man's soul" -- "This is the city and I am one of the citizens" -- "The word final, superior to all ... what is it?" -- Manifest destiny -- Wonderland -- Phalanxes -- Illuminations -- "The beginning of a great career" -- "The ocean of life" -- Meteors -- "America, brought to hospital in her fair youth" -- Good gray poet -- Passages -- Timber Creek. |
Responsibility: | Justin Kaplan. |
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Abstract:
A biography of Walt Whitman providing insight into his childhood, relationships, career, and major written works. Focuses on the ways in which Whitman expressed his philosophies and ideologies in his everyday life and poetry. Includes several photographs taken from throughout Whitman's life.
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