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Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865] " Spirit whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!" Leaves of Grass (Book XXI. Drum-Taps) Spontaneous Me " Spontaneous me, Nature," Leaves of Grass (Book IV. Children of Adam.) 1856 Starting from Paumanok " Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born," Leaves of Grass (Book II.) 1860
Whitman's work has been claimed in the name of racial equality. In a preface to the 1946 anthology I Hear the People Singing: Selected Poems of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes wrote that Whitman's "all-embracing words lock arms with workers and farmers, Negroes and whites, Asiatics and Europeans, serfs, and free men, beaming democracy to all." [57]
Walter Whitman Jr. (/ ˈ hw ɪ t m ə n /; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature.
The scholar Jerome Loving deemed "The Sleepers" "the most famous dream in American literature". [10] The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman listed "The Sleepers" as one of Whitman's most famous poems. [11] It goes on to describe the poem as "a particularly distinguished performance" and drew comparisons to "Song of Myself". [12]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 October 2024. Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln "Oh Captain, My Captain" redirects here. For the Grimm episode, see Oh Captain, My Captain (Grimm). For the Shameless episode, see O Captain, My Captain (Shameless). O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman Printed copy of "O Captain! My ...
Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times, the first novel written by Walt Whitman, is the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans. Franklin Evans starts as an innocent young man, leaving Long Island to come to New York City for the opportunity to better himself. Being young and naïve, he is easily influenced by someone whom he ...
In the second (1856) edition, Whitman used the title "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American," which was shortened to "Walt Whitman" for the third (1860) edition. [ 1 ] The poem was divided into fifty-two numbered sections for the fourth (1867) edition and finally took on the title "Song of Myself" in the last edition (1891–2). [ 1 ]
Democratic Vistas is a book by the American author Walt Whitman, published in 1871.It is considered an early classic work of comparative politics and letters. Whitman, who was then working as a federal clerk, does much to expound on the influence of the Louisiana Purchase and expansion on the American spirit, character, and body politic (foreshadowing Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis).