Includes Walt Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems. "Drum-Taps" is a sequence of poems about the Civil War.

Walter Whitman Jr. (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855

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Walt Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser" is a sixty-five-line free-verse poem in four sections describing the suffering in the Civil War hospitals and the poet's suffering, faithfulness to duty, and developing compassion as he tended to soldiers' physical wounds and gave comfort. Published at war's end, the poem opens with an old veteran speaking, imaginatively suggesting some youths gathered about who have asked him to tell of his most powerful memories....

Contained herein is a vast collection of Whitman's writing, including vignettes from his childhood, a series of powerful accounts of his work in hospitals during the Civil war, and a large amount of nature writing. Composed in 1881 primarily from sketches, notes, and essays written at various stages of the poet's life from the Civil War onwards, Specimen Days is the closest thing Whitman ever published to a traditional autobiography. A wonderful insight...

Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand as a volunteer in Washington's military hospitals. This superb selection of poems, letters, and prose from that era includes "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.

Dias exemplares, reunião de dezenas de textos curtos que formam uma espécie de autobiografia livre e comentada, é a versão, em prosa, da reunião de poemas Folhas de relva, a obra-prima de Walt Whitman (1819-1892), tida como o marco fundador da literatura moderna norte-americana. Numa espécie de diário íntimo, um dos maiores – senão o maior – poeta norte-americano inicia Dias exemplares contando a história de sua família e o início...

Whitman escribió 'Días ejemplares' en la vejez con el propósito de dejar constancia de lo que había sido su vida en unos momentos muy convulsos de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Con motivo de un viaje a la tierra de sus antepasados, concibió el proyecto autobiográfico del que ya había escrito la parte de la Guerra Civil. Además, utilizó fragmentos de sus colaboraciones periodísticas que trataban del viaje que hizo al oeste del país...

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These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in a newspaper list of Union Army casualties. The poet hurried from his Brooklyn home to a Virginia battlefront, where he found his brother, wounded but recovering. Profoundly moved by his experiences in the army hospital, Whitman settled in Washington, D.C., for the rest of the war. There he served as...

Walt Whitman is known for his beautiful, floral poetry but here are collected some of the poems inspired by his time working a s a nurse during the American Civil War.

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) foi um poeta, ensaísta e jornalista norte-americano, é considerado por muitos como o "pai do verso livre" e o grande poeta da Revolução americana, assim como Maiakovsky seria o grande poeta da Revolução russa. A técnica inovadora dos seus poemas, nos quais a ideia de totalidade se traduziu no verso livre, influenciou não apenas a literatura americana posterior, mas todo o lirismo moderno, incluindo o poeta e ensaísta...