Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
by Jerome Loving
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A biography of Walt Whitman, the 19th century writer hailed as the father of American poetry. It traces his life as a printer and journalist, before his self-published collection, Leaves of Grass, brought him fame. He was a great promoter, going so far as to write his own book reviews for newspapers. As a poet, he rejected regular meter and rhyme in favor of free verse and blazed the trail as a writer of erotica.Tags
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Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas AM University, is the author of Walt Whitman: Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, both from UC Press.
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- People/Characters
- Walt Whitman
- Epigraph
- Whitman is so hard to grasp, to put in a statement. One cannot get to the bottom of him ... his is bottomed in Nature, in democracy, in science, in personality. John Burroughs
- Dedication
- To My Family
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To The Memory
of
Charles Gordone
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- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 811.3 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry Middle 19th century 1830–1861
- LCC
- PS3231 .L68 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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- English, Spanish
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