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The Lunar Light of Whitman’s Poetry

Af: M. Wynn Thomas Engelsk Hardback

The Lunar Light of Whitman’s Poetry

Af: M. Wynn Thomas Engelsk Hardback
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Walt Whitman stands freshly illuminated in this powerful portrait of the poet responding to his times.

Whitman’s idealistic expectations of democracy were painfully eroded by the rapidly expanding urban capitalism that, before the Civil War, increasingly threatened the economic and political power of the ordinary American. His poetry during this, his most fruitful period, became the indispensable medium allowing him to adjust to these developments. He succeeded in portraying this modern society as an invigorating natural extension of the artisanal order. After the war, however, American capitalism advanced at a pace that made it impossible for Whitman to redeem it through his poetry. His imagination defeated by realities, he invested more and more in dreams of the future, while his poetry turned to the past, Memory emerging as a central figure.

In this many-sided analysis M. Wynn Thomas relates Whitman’s work to American painting of the period; examines the poet’s evocation of nature, which he sometimes saw as a challenge to man’s confidence in himself; documents the revisions and additions Whitman made to Leaves of Grass in order to demonstrate that “my Book and the War are One”; and pays sympathetic attention to the postwar poetry, usually slighted.

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Walt Whitman stands freshly illuminated in this powerful portrait of the poet responding to his times.

Whitman’s idealistic expectations of democracy were painfully eroded by the rapidly expanding urban capitalism that, before the Civil War, increasingly threatened the economic and political power of the ordinary American. His poetry during this, his most fruitful period, became the indispensable medium allowing him to adjust to these developments. He succeeded in portraying this modern society as an invigorating natural extension of the artisanal order. After the war, however, American capitalism advanced at a pace that made it impossible for Whitman to redeem it through his poetry. His imagination defeated by realities, he invested more and more in dreams of the future, while his poetry turned to the past, Memory emerging as a central figure.

In this many-sided analysis M. Wynn Thomas relates Whitman’s work to American painting of the period; examines the poet’s evocation of nature, which he sometimes saw as a challenge to man’s confidence in himself; documents the revisions and additions Whitman made to Leaves of Grass in order to demonstrate that “my Book and the War are One”; and pays sympathetic attention to the postwar poetry, usually slighted.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 313
ISBN-13: 9780674539525
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0674539524
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900
Udg. Dato: 12 feb 1987
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 162mm
Højde: 241mm
Forlag: Harvard University Press
Oplagsdato: 12 feb 1987
Forfatter(e): M. Wynn Thomas
Forfatter(e) M. Wynn Thomas

Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900

ISBN-13 9780674539525

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 313

Udgave

Længde 30mm

Bredde 162mm

Højde 241mm

Udg. Dato 12 feb 1987

Oplagsdato 12 feb 1987

Forlag Harvard University Press

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