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Cookie akzeptieren- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Taschenbuch
- 232 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030776640
Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman¿s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman¿s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life. Wagner-Martin¿s study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman experienced. Starting with his early career as a printer and journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass, and his cultivation of the persona of the ¿working-class¿ writer. In addition to establishing Whitman¿s attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the
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