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1) Walt Whitman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
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Works volume XVI
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English
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This is John Burroughs' 1896 biographical treatise of Walt Whitman, "Whitman: A Study". It constitutes a profound and comprehensive insight into the mind and work of one of America's greatest poets by another of America's great men of letters. This fantastic book is highly recommended for all lovers of literature, and it is not to be missed by fans of Burroughs' work. John Burroughs (1837 – 1921) was an American naturalist, essayist, and active...
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This is John Burroughs' 1922 biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'The Last Harvest'. It is a masterful piece of writing that provides a unique and profound insight into the life of American poet Last Harvest. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the work and mind of Emerson, and it is not to be missed by fans of Burroughs' fantastic work. Contents include: 'Emerson And His Journals', 'Flies In Amber', 'Another Word On Thoreau',...
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Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece, "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature. "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."--Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walt Whitman was a poetic Visionary. He published the first edition of this monumental work in 1855...
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The poetry of Walt Whitman is the cornerstone of modern American verse. He was America's first truly great poet and his influence is still evident today. The first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, published in 1855, was a revolutionary manifesto declaring America's independence from European cultural domination. His rhapsodic free verse broke radically with poetic, tradition: it was poetry about America, its democracy, its people, and its hopes....
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English
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This collection of essays includes: VICTOR HUGO'S ROMANCES, SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS, WALT WHITMAN, HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS, YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO, FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSE-BREAKER, CHARLES OF ORLEANS, SAMUEL PEPYS, and JOHN KNOX AND WOMEN. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Credited by some as the first truly American poet, Walt Whitman carved out a literary niche all his own with groundbreaking volumes such as Leaves of Grass. This richly detailed biography was written by a nurse, Elizabeth Keller, who cared for Whitman during his final years.
9) Walt Whitman
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Chelsea House Publishers
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English
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Bloom refers to Walt Whitman as, in every good sense, our national poet. This title examines numerous poems from the author, including "Song of Myself," "The Sleepers," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," and more.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
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Dover Publications
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English
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Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb collection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights and sounds of war and its ugly aftermath, expresses a vast and powerful range of emotions.
Among the poems include here, first published in Drum-Taps (1865) and Sequel
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English
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"Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking-hugely human, enormously attractive." -Newsweek
A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet-his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility-an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-nineteenth century America. In vivid detail, Justin Kaplan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, examines the mysterious selves of this...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War"--
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1906
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English
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A part of the American Men of Letters Series, this 1906 volume was the first biography of Whitman published after his death in 1892. Perry draws on a rich collection of Whitman material including many letters between the poet and his friends and colleagues. Perry details the life and work of this literary giant in prose that is as interesting and engaging today as when it was written.
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Penguin Workshop
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©2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But today, he's recognized as one of America's founding poets, a man who changed American literature forever. Throughout his life, Walt journeyed everywhere, from New York to New Orleans, Washington D.C. to Denver, taking in all that America had to offer.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
18) Walt Whitman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"An exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Walt Whitman, whose poetry is known for both its passionate celebration of American life and its direct, speechlike style"--
19) On Whitman
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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C. K. Williams (1936–2015) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He taught creative writing and translation at Princeton University.
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman
In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated...
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