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Zusatztext "Fascinating. . . . Interesting and original information . . . [is] uncovered through Genoways' original research." Informationen zum Autor Ted Genoways is the editor of Walt Whitman: The Correspondence! Volume VII and the series editor of the correspondence for the online Walt Whitman Archive. He is also the author of two volumes of poetry and the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Klappentext "This is one of the most remarkable studies of Whitman that I've seen in many a year...penetrating and original."—Jerome Loving, author of Walt Whitman: the Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser "This lovely portrait of Walt Whitman's life as the nation slid into the Civil War is a subtle and intricate gift. Ingeniously reconstructing a lost historical record, Genoways rescues a crucial period in the life of our greatest poet. In the process, he illuminates these mysterious years of the nation's past."—Edward L. Ayers, author of I n the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America " Walt Whitman and the Civil War strikes an admirable balance between scholarly research and narrative drama. Genoways has delivered an exciting literary history of America at war with herself and has positioned at the nation's very center the century's greatest poet."—Billy Collins "Sherlock Holmes could not have done better. Ted Genoways has traced and documented—in poems and articles, published and unpublished (rejected, actually!)—Walt Whitman's 'lost' years, the years when the man who eventually heard America singing found his own voice and not incidentally transformed himself from Walter to Walt, even as the country marched to war. An unsentimental, yet eloquent (and definitively footnoted) detective story/homage."—Victor Navasky, Chairman, The Columbia Journalism Review and former Editor and Publisher, The Nation "Debunking the myth that Whitman was unaffected by America's march to war in 1860—and armed with fresh discoveries and new letters—Ted Genoways illuminates the tumultuous two-year period in the life of America and its beloved bard. With its graceful prose and serious scholarship, Walt Whitman and the Civil War is a must-read for Whitman enthusiasts—and everyone else."—Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson Zusammenfassung Shortly after the third edition of "Leaves of Grass" was published in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, only to emerge two and a half years later. This work reconstructs the forgotten years of Whitman through letters and manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through newspapers and magazines in which he published. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Quicksand Years Chapter 1 The Red-Hot Fellows of Those Times Chapter 2 The Representative Man of the North Chapter 3 The Volcanic Upheaval of the Nation Chapter 4 War-Suggesting Trumpets! I Heard You Chapter 5 Dead and Divine! and Brother of All Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index ...
