Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Auteur de Feuilles d'herbe
A propos de l'auteur
Walt Whitman was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a carpenter. He left school when he was 11 years old to take a variety of jobs. By the time he was 15, Whitman was living on his own in New York City, working as a printer and writing short pieces for newspapers. He afficher plus spent a few years teaching, but most of his work was either in journalism or politics. Gradually, Whitman became a regular contributor to a variety of Democratic Party newspapers and reviews, and early in his career established a rather eccentric way of life, spending a great deal of time walking the streets, absorbing life and talking with laborers. Extremely fond of the opera, he used his press pass to spend many evenings in the theater. In 1846, Whitman became editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading Democratic newspaper. Two years later, he was fired for opposing the expansion of slavery into the west. Whitman's career as a poet began in 1885, with the publication of the first edition of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The book was self-published (Whitman probably set some of the type himself), and despite his efforts to publicize it - including writing his own reviews - few people read it. One reader who did appreciate it was essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote a letter greeting Whitman at "the beginning of a great career." Whitman's poetry was unlike any verse that had ever been seen. Written without rhyme, in long, loose lines, filled with poetic lists and exclamations taken from Whitman's reading of the Bible, Homer, and Asian poets, these poems were totally unlike conventional poetry. Their subject matter, too, was unusual - the celebration of a free-spirited individualist whose love for all things and people seemed at times disturbingly sensual. In 1860, with the publication of the third edition on Leaves of Grass, Whitman alienated conventional thinkers and writers even more. When he went to Boston to meet Emerson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poet James Russell Lowell, they all objected to the visit. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Whitman's attentions turned almost exclusively to that conflict. Some of the greatest poetry of his career, including Drum Taps (1865) and his magnificent elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, "When Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865), was written during this period. In 1862, his brother George was wounded in battle, and Whitman went to Washington to nurse him. He continued as a hospital volunteer throughout the war, nursing other wounded soldiers and acting as a benevolent father-figure and confidant. Parts of his memoir Specimen Days (1882) record this period. After the war, Whitman stayed on in Washington, working as a government clerk and continuing to write. In 1873 he suffered a stroke and retired to Camden, New Jersey, where he lived as an invalid for the rest of his life. Ironically, his reputation began to grow during this period, as the public became more receptive to his poetic and personal eccentricities. Whitman tried to capture the spirit of America in a new poetic form. His poetry is rough, colloquial, sweeping in its vistas - a poetic equivalent of the vast land and its varied peoples. Critic Louis Untermeyer has written, "In spite of Whitman's perplexing mannerisms, the poems justify their boundless contradictions. They shake themselves free from rant and bombastic audacities and rise into the clear air of major poetry. Such poetry is not large but self-assured; it knows, as Whitman asserted, the amplitude of time and laughs at dissolution. It contains continents; it unfolds the new heaven and new earth of the Western world." American poetry has never been the same since Whitman tore it away from its formal and thematic constraints, and he is considered by virtually all critics today to be one of the greatest poets the country has ever produced. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will… (1842) 73 exemplaires
Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers (1995) — Auteur — 59 exemplaires
Leaves Of Grass - Selected And With An Introduction By Christopher Morley - Illustrations By Lewis C. Daniel (1939) 45 exemplaires
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of… (2019) 40 exemplaires
Leaves of grass: Including Sands at seventy, first annex, Good-by my fancy, second annex, A backward glance o'er… (1907) 33 exemplaires
The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War (1999) 33 exemplaires
The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser,… (2014) 30 exemplaires
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (2005) 25 exemplaires
Walt Whitman 20 exemplaires
Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1934) 19 exemplaires
Leaves of grass including a fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of gathered… (1900) 16 exemplaires
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (1949) 13 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856 (1980) 12 exemplaires
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Lewis Daniel Doubleday Doran 1940 in Slipcase (1940) — Auteur — 11 exemplaires
To the Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings the Poetry of Walt Whitman [sound recording] (2006) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
Two prefaces 8 exemplaires
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa Whitman Series) (2011) 8 exemplaires
Walt Whitman Poetry Collection: Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and A Complete Biography of Walt Whitman (2020) 7 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume III: Poems: 1870-1891 (1980) 7 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass a selection of Poems — Auteur — 6 exemplaires
Digte 5 exemplaires
Walt Whitman's Blue Book : The 1860-61 Leaves of grass containing his manuscript, additations, and revisions (2010) 5 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass - The Deathbed Edition Complete with 400 Poems (Reader's Library Classics) (2022) 5 exemplaires
The Works of Walt Whitman (The Deathbed Edition): Volume II, The Collected Prose (1968) 5 exemplaires
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 5 exemplaires
From This Soil, Selected Poems By Walt Whitman 5 exemplaires
Works of Walt Whitman. Including Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days, Drum Taps & more (mobi) (2008) 5 exemplaires
Walt Whitman's Poems. Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Charles T. Davis (Evergreen Books. no. 161.) (1955) 4 exemplaires
Greatest Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Good-Bye My Fancy, Specimen Days, Collect, November Boughs,… (2012) 4 exemplaires
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves Of Grass, Drum-Taps, The Patriotic Poems, The Wound Dresser and More (89… (2013) 4 exemplaires
The Song of the Open Road 3 exemplaires
Starting from Paumanok 3 exemplaires
Slang in America 3 exemplaires
Canti d'addio 3 exemplaires
Song of the Broad-Axe 3 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila ’91-2 3 exemplaires
The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Walt Whitman 3 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila. ‘84 3 exemplaires
Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles (Library of Southern Civilization) (2022) 3 exemplaires
Manly Health and Training: With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions - New American Edition (2016) 3 exemplaires
The Correspondence of Walt Whitman Volume VI: A Supplement with a Composite Index (1977) 3 exemplaires
The Works of Walt Whitman in Two Volumes as Prepared By Him for the Deathbed Edition. Vol. 1: the Collected Poetry.… (1968) 3 exemplaires
Calamus : a series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle) (2015) 3 exemplaires
La quercia 3 exemplaires
Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks and Fragments (2020) 2 exemplaires
An English and an American poet 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass, Comprising all the Poems ...following the Arrangement of the 1891 - 92 Edition. [Modern Library Giant… (1961) 2 exemplaires
Folhas das folhas da relva 2 exemplaires
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up: Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Iowa Whitman Series) (2021) 2 exemplaires
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman Vol. 2 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass 2 exemplaires
The best of Whitman 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass (Selection) I 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass Washington, D.C. ‘72 2 exemplaires
Short Stories 2 exemplaires
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman (Crown Classics) 2 exemplaires
Canto de mí mismo y otros poemas ; seguido de Una mirada a los caminos recorridos (1997) 2 exemplaires
Calamus, letters to Peter Doyle 2 exemplaires
Two Rivulets 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) (1965) 2 exemplaires
Selections from Whitman 2 exemplaires
Poems of Walt Whitman (From "Leaves of Grass") with Introduction By Ernest Rhys (1890) 2 exemplaires
Poesía completa Edición bilingüe Tomo III 2 exemplaires
Walt Whitman : Walt Whitman's autograph revision of the analysis of Leaves of grass (for Dr. R. M. Bucke's… 2 exemplaires
Collection of American Poetry: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth… (2010) 2 exemplaires
Ich rufe Erde und Meer an 2 exemplaires
Poems [The Masterpiece Library] The Penny Poets XXVII 2 exemplaires
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. Includes; Inscriptions; Song of Myself; Children of Adam; Calamus; Song of Open Road;… (1942) 2 exemplaires
Walt Whitman and the Civil War : a collection of original articles and manuscripts (1999) 2 exemplaires
Pictures : a poem 2 exemplaires
Leaves of Grass, edited by Emory Holloway 2 exemplaires
Collected writings 2 exemplaires
The Correspondence, Vol. IV: 1886-1889 1 exemplaire
DEMOKRACJA I PERSONALIZM 1 exemplaire
Miracles (excerpt) 1 exemplaire
Complete Works of Walt Whitman "American Poet, Essayist, and Journalist"! 9 Complete Works (Patriotic Poems, Democratic… (2016) 1 exemplaire
Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman Easton Press 1st Edition Full Leather 22k Gold Edge (1777) 1 exemplaire
Specimen Days and a collection 1 exemplaire
The Correspondence, Vol. I: 1842-1867 1 exemplaire
diVersi 1 exemplaire
behoor je werkelijk tot de volledige mensen? 1 exemplaire
Three Poems 1 exemplaire
Poemas esenciales 1 exemplaire
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose - Walt Whitman 1 exemplaire
Complete poems & prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888: Authenticated & personal book (handled by W.W.), portraits fr 1 exemplaire
SEÇME ŞİİRLER 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass Everyman's Library 1 exemplaire
Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III 1 exemplaire
Prose Works 1892 Volume 2 1 exemplaire
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FIJE BARI 1 exemplaire
The Correspondence Volume 1 1842-1867 1 exemplaire
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Song of the Exposition 1 exemplaire
Whitman_Leaves_of_Grass.mobi 1 exemplaire
Two Rivulets, Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [And As a Strong Bird On Pinions… (2012) 1 exemplaire
Prose Works 1892 Volume 1 1 exemplaire
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Death of Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplaire
“Sparkles from the Whell” 1 exemplaire
“I Hear America Singing” 1 exemplaire
“Starting from Paumanok” 1 exemplaire
“I Sing the Body Electric” 1 exemplaire
Sangen om migselv 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS (I) & DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Everyman's Library 1930 [Hardcover] unknown 1 exemplaire
Democracy's Poet: Walt Whitman A Celebration 1 exemplaire
"The Sleepers" 1 exemplaire
Hymn on the Death of Lincoln 1 exemplaire
“When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” 1 exemplaire
“Broadway Pageant” 1 exemplaire
“Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” 1 exemplaire
Obras Escogidas, Ensayo biografico critico version, notas y bibliografia de Concha Zardoya 1 exemplaire
"A Woman Waits for Me" 1 exemplaire
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman 1 exemplaire
Best Poems of Walt Whitman (Little Blue Book #73) 1 exemplaire
Ecrits de jeunesse (Un endroit où aller t. 265) 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass - The People's Library 1 exemplaire
“Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier” 1 exemplaire
"An Old Man's Thoughts Of School" 1 exemplaire
Manahatta 1 exemplaire
American poetry 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass C3 1 exemplaire
Complete Poetry And Collected Prose - Leaves Of Grass (1855 & 1891-92), Complete Prose Works (1892), Supplementary… 1 exemplaire
Prefácios a Folhas de Erva 1 exemplaire
Poems of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman, selections from his poetry and prose 1 exemplaire
Walden and Civil Disobedience, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, & Twice Told Tales by… 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman Abroad 1 exemplaire
Poesía (Edición bilingüe) 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman's Blue Book 1 exemplaire
Two Rivulets 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass - Foglie d'erba 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) 1 exemplaire
Càlam / Calamus. Publicat en ocasió de la commemoració del centenari de la mort de Walt Whitman 30 de març - 2… 1 exemplaire
Leaves of grass (1855-71) : Democratic vistas 1 exemplaire
Vidas ejemplares 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Whitman, Walt (2002) Paperback 1 exemplaire
Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass Vol. LVIII-Number 1 1 exemplaire
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 1 exemplaire
Voices and Visions-Walt Whitman 1 exemplaire
Kosmos 1 exemplaire
[A collection of Fragments of Walt Whitman's writings, all in his autograph, consisting of eighteen various pieces] 1 exemplaire
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman [Collector's Library] 1 exemplaire
Selected poetry-list poems 1 exemplaire
Werke 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman (The Library of Great Poetry) 1 exemplaire
a child's reminiscence 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass : including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye my Fancy, A Backward glance o'er travel'd roads, and portrait… 1 exemplaire
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplaire
Freedom and Domination 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems 1 exemplaire
Ruohonlehtiä 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman, ses meilleures pages 1 exemplaire
An Autograph letter from Walt Whitman to Bram Stoker 1 exemplaire
Canção da estrada larga 1 exemplaire
Choix de poèmes 1 exemplaire
Sangen om meg selv : av "Leaves of grass" 1 exemplaire
Canti scelti 1 exemplaire
Whitman's Poems 1 exemplaire
Eidolons 1 exemplaire
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 1 exemplaire
A collection of poems. 1 exemplaire
Leaves of grass : selected from the complete edition 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitmans Werk in zwei Bänden 1 exemplaire
Ich singe für dich, o Demokratie 1 exemplaire
Hojas de Hierba - Tomo I 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings 1 exemplaire
Foglie D'erba 1855 1 exemplaire
Fremtidens historie 1 exemplaire
New York dissected : a sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass (1976) 1 exemplaire
Grashalme. Mit einem Essay v. Gustav Landauer 1 exemplaire
A Noiseless Patient Spider 1 exemplaire
Domestic Vistas, and Other Papers 1 exemplaire
Fuldkomne Dage 1 exemplaire
Criticism : an unpublished essay 1 exemplaire
Song of the Redwood Tree 1 exemplaire
Gesang von der offenen Landstraße. Mit 6 ganzseitigen Original-Holzschnitten von William Tegtmeier. Druck in Schwarz… (1921) 1 exemplaire
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplaire
collected prose 1 exemplaire
Poesías 1 exemplaire
Poems by Walt Whitman 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman, Conversaciones 1 exemplaire
Vida de Walt Whitman "El haragán magnífico" 1 exemplaire
Whitman Manuscripts at the University of Virginia (The Walt Whitman Archive, Vol 3, Pt. 1-2) (1993) 1 exemplaire
Short Stories by Walt Whitman 1 exemplaire
Walt Whitman's poems 1 exemplaire
Cîntec despre mine 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'92 1 exemplaire
Blue Book: Volume II: Textual Analysis 1 exemplaire
Poèmes de Walt Whitman 1 exemplaire
Opere alese 1 exemplaire
Lyrik und Prosa 1 exemplaire
Prosaschriften 1 exemplaire
Poesia Diversi - Walt Whitman - n. 5 - settimanale 1 exemplaire
THREE POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN SET TO MUSIC BY R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1. NOCTURNE - 2. A CLEAR MIDNIGHT - 3. JOY, SHIPMATE,… (1925) 1 exemplaire
Leaves of Grass Inclusive edition. From the text of the edition authorized and editorially supervised by his literary… (1926) 1 exemplaire
Poems and prose 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 1 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 4 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 5 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 6 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 7 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 8 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 9 1 exemplaire
Complete Writings Vol. 10 1 exemplaire
Io canto me stesso 1 exemplaire
Canto di una vita immensa 1 exemplaire
Leaves of grass, Democratic vistas, specimen days, with a biographical and critical introduction 1 exemplaire
Excerpts from Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass, 1 exemplaire
Demokratski vidici 1 exemplaire
A Wartime Whitman 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Whitman, Walt
- Nom légal
- Whitman, Walter
- Autres noms
- Whitman, Walt
- Date de naissance
- 1819-05-31
- Date de décès
- 1892-03-26
- Lieu de sépulture
- Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Cause du décès
- miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis
- Lieux de résidence
- Washington, D.C., USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Études
- self-educated
- Professions
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
essayist
editor
teacher (tout afficher 12)
nurse
typesetter
apprentice printer
convention delegate
journalist
clerk (Bureau of Indian Affairs ∙ U.S. Department of the Interior) - Organisations
- The Patriot
Long Islander
Long Island Democrat
Brooklyn Eagle - Prix et distinctions
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1930)
Gave Commencement Address at Dartmouth College (1872)
Walt Whitman Bridge - Courte biographie
- Walter Whitman Jr. (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 his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman resided in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well known. 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. On the death of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he wrote his well known poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures. After a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at the age of 72, his funeral was a public event.
Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith 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."
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