Walt Whitman: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #4)Library of America, 27.01.2003 - 221 Seiten American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries, Whitman’s poetry is a testament to the surging energies of 19th-century America and a monument to the transforming power of literary genius. His incantatory rhythms, revolutionary sense of Eros, and generous, all-embracing vision invite renewed wonder at each reading. Although he has been a defining influence for many poets—Garcia Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Robinson Jeffers, and Allen Ginsberg—his style is ultimately inimitable, and his achievement unsurpassed in American poetry. “One always wants to start out fresh with Whitman,” writes Harold Bloom in his introduction, “and read him as though he never has been read before.” In a selection that ranges from early notebook fragments and the complete “Song of Myself” to the valedictory “Good-bye My Fancy!,” Bloom has chosen 47 works to represent “the principal writer that America—North, Central, or South—has brought to us.” About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics. |
Inhalt
I wander all night in my vision The Sleepers | 95 |
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | 109 |
Poets to Come | 145 |
A Woman Waits for Me | 160 |
O Hymen O Hymenee | 166 |
Scented Herbage of My Breast | 172 |
City of Orgies | 178 |
The World Below the Brine | 184 |
Reconciliation | 192 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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