THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN - WORDSWORTH POETRY LIBRARY
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.
Walt Whitman's 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.
Whitman's 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 Bloom'd'.
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WHITMAN WALT
Walt Whitman 1819-1892 fue un poeta, ensayista y periodista estadounidense, considerado el padre del verso libre y de la poesía moderna en su país. Su obra más célebre, Hojas de hierba, celebra la democracia, el cuerpo humano y la vida cotidiana. Participó como enfermero voluntario en la Guerra Civil y fusionó trascendentalismo y realismo en sus escritos.
