The Works of Walt Whitman - The Wordsworth Poetry Library
Walt Whitman
Paperback (05 Apr 1995)


Publishers Synopsis

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.

Walt Whitmans verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking.

Whitmans poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality. His verse is a fitting celebration of a new breed of American and includes Song of Myself, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, the celebratory Passage to India, and his fine elegy for the assassinated President Lincoln, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd.


Book information

ISBN: 9781853264337
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions
Pub date: 05 Apr 1995
DEWEY: 811.3
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 557
Weight: 392g
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 33mm