Walt Whitman

Zusatztext "In Walt Whitman, David Reynolds has distilled the key findings of his encyclopedic Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography and now makes Whitman's cultural life--and his transformation of that life into art--accessible to readers at all levels. Every page contains suggestions, discoveries, and insights that will send students back to Whitman's poetry with renewed enthusiasm. This is an innovative and illuminating introduction to Whitman and his work." --Ed Folsom, Editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Informationen zum Autor David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among his many books are Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Beneath the American Renaissance, winner of the Christian Gauss Award. A regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, he lives in Old Westbury, New York. Klappentext Walt Whitman is one of the first volumes in the Lives and Legacies series on notable figures inspired by the Very Short Introductions series. Award winning author, David Reynolds, offers a book that comcisely places this influencial American poet in his historical contexts. Zusammenfassung Walt Whitman is one of the first volumes in the Lives and Legacies series on notable figures inspired by the Very Short Introductions series. Award winning author, David Reynolds, offers a book that comcisely places this influencial American poet in his historical contexts.

Product details

• Authors: David S Reynolds, David S. Reynolds, David S. (Distinguished Professor in the Reynolds, David S. (Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and American Studies Reynolds
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2005
• EAN: 9780195170092
• ISBN: 978-0-19-517009-2
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Live and Legacies; Lives and Legacies Series; Lives and Legacies; Lives & Legacies (Oxford); Lives and Legacies; Lives & Legacies (Oxford); Live and Legacies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History