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Chargement... With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, in America (2015)par Jean Huets
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I was fortunate to have won this through LibraryThing giveaway! It is truly a gem of a book. Walt Whitman is a treasure, and Jean does a wonderful job with this book! ( )Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I enjoy the history as well as the overall layout and information in this book. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I was surprised at the content of this book, because it seems as much or more about nineteenth century America, as about Walt Whitman. However, that's not a complaint, because I like this book very much. I like how Whitman's own words and writings are interwoven with the narrative in a way that flows naturally and is very readable. I think it adds to Whitman's story to see him in the context of other writers and people of note, as well as early Long Island, Brooklyn, and other localities. This book was the first time I had read about his brothers and sisters. I wish there had been more about Whitman's work during the Civil War and his thoughts on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Otherwise, this was pretty close to perfect. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. In this season of Whitman -with glorious exhibits at the Morgan and the NYPL to celebrate his 200th birthday - it is a delight to read this historical companion that seeks to situate the "good gray poet" among the 19th century realities he wrestled with and wrote out of. I learned and re-learned many things as I perused this handsome volume and was charmed by the presentation itself. Here is a great gift to both casual and committed readers of this most excellent poet. Often I pass books like this on to an eager new reader -but I am going to keep this for a while -at least until Whitman's deep generosity moves my soul to do otherwise. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. THIS IS AN EARLY REVIEWERS BOOK REVIEWRating: 5* of five The Publisher Says: WITH WALT WHITMAN, HIMSELF immerses the reader in the life and times of the poet called “America’s bard,” with over 300 period images and text including extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and a few enemies). Explore the fascinating roots of Whitman's great work Leaves of Grass: a family harrowed by alcoholism and mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward. The coming year 2019 will mark the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth; this book anticipates the celebration with a perspective of Walt Whitman “in the nineteenth century, in America,” as he himself put it. My Review: What an extraordinarily lovely surprise this book was to me. It is physically beautiful: Printed in four colors, with Whitman's own words highlighted for the reader's eye by being printed in a handsome shade of Process Blue; daguerrotypes and other photos printed in rich and period-appropriate shades of umber and sepia achieved by using the four process colors; paintings and archival materials reproduced in very clear and obviously carefully proofed separations. The paper is uncoated, but is a top-quality book paper; this means it isn't vividly bleached to an eye-hurting whiteness, thus making the text a chore to read. Instead, the whole package, in its design and execution, is meant to be an inviting visual and tactile experience. This makes its contents that much more appealing to view. This $35 paperback is a coffee-table book. It would look very well on anyone's conversation-starting furniture of whatever description. The purpose of the book is to bring a modern reader, perhaps one not familiar with Whitman or, at most, glancingly acquainted with "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" or "To A Stranger" (if a gay man over 40), a sense of Whitman the man and the way he became that man. The 19th century brought huge changes to the USA, as your history class sledgehammered into your adolescent brain. The world Whitman was born into on the 31st of May in 1819—two hundred years ago today—resembled not at all the world in which he wrote his poems or in which he died, in 1892, at seventy-two well-lived years of age. Steamships, trains, escalators...a Civil War whose battles we fight to this day...a world that Whitman embraced with wide-open arms and eyes, with reservations he always set aside to be more fully present in his moment. We could all do well to live in imitation of Whitman's way. If one approaches this volume in the spirit of an interested browser, it will delight and edify; those seeking A Life or, perish forbid!, a monograph on Whitman's poems, will go away dissatisfied, though certainly diverted. I came to the book informed about Whitman, and came away delighted at the quantity of insight I gained from reading it. I loved the images, I knew I'd be sucked in by the 300 or so lovely reproductions, but I was equally edified by the organization of the text into Walt, and his world. It is explicit in the title: You're going to 19th century America with Walt Whitman's life as your tour agenda. As I am a New York City boy, those sections resonated strongly with me; as a Long Islander, Whitman's experiences highlighted for me the unslackening pace of change in this vigorous and vibrant world. Whitman was born in Hempstead, where I spent a decade! Believe you me, if we resurrected Walt and placed him in the Hempstead of today, he'd love it for its vibrant urbanity and be shocked to learn it's his birthplace. I found Pete Doyle's tale, with whose outlines I was familiar, to be unbearably poignant. Soul father Whitman, 45 at the time, met his 21-year-old life's love on the streetcar where the lad worked. The rest of Whitman's life, and of Doyle's I learned here, they were connected, they were in love. What that means to someone in an intergenerational relationship in this disapproving and minatory world...! The storms of life could separate their bodies, death could knock with her unignorable tattoo, they were in love: I have Walt's raglan here...I now and then put it on, lay down, think I am in the old times. Then he is with me again. It's the only thing I kept amongst many old things. When I get it on and stretch out on the old sofa I am very well contented. It is like Aladdin's lamp. I do not ever for a minute lose the old man. He is always near by. When I am in trouble—in a crisis—I ask myself, "What would Walt have done under these circumstances?" and whatever I decide Walt would have done that I do. I hope with all the fibers of my being that my Pete, my Young Gentleman Caller Rob, has occasion to remember as fondly after I am dead. It was such points of commonality, uncommon to find in a work about a long-dead author, that kept me returning to the book with a curious mind and an eager eye. After reading WITH WALT WHITMAN, HIMSELF, I was soul-satisfied that I had found my spiritual ancestor. No poet I, nor truth to tell much of a poetry consumer; but Walt Whitman, comme d'habitude, pursued me down the street to talk to me. I am so very glad that I stopped to listen. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
WITH WALT WHITMAN: HIMSELF immerses the reader in the life and times of the poet called "America's bard," with over 300 period images and text including extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and a few enemies). Explore the fascinating roots of Whitman's great work Leaves of Grass: a family harrowed by alcoholism and mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward. The coming year 2019 will mark the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth; this book anticipates the celebration with a perspective of Walt Whitman "in the nineteenth century, in America," as he himself put it. Praise for With Walt Whitman: Himself"A beautiful book of windows onto the life of Walt Whitman. From the clear ringing prose to the fascinating photographs and colored illustrations of the great poet's life we find the man anew-standing in his time and looking straight at us¿. [Huets] has made a book of marvels and I can't put it down." - Steve Scafidi, author of To the Bramble and the Briar, recipient of prizes including Miller Williams Prize and Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry"Jean Huets' With Walt Whitman: Himself is a true Whitmanian feast-for the intellect as well as for the eyes. It is hard to put this remarkable book down once you've opened its riches-illustrations of Whitman's various places, friends, family, disciples, contemporaries-his cities and his rural retreats. The descriptions of his life and times are concise and smart. The book keeps opening up to new facets of Whitman, his work, and his era." - Ed Folsom, Editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Co-Director of Walt Whitman Archive Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)811.3Literature English (North America) American poetry Middle 19th century 1830–1861ÉvaluationMoyenne:
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