[PDF] Whitmans Poetry Of The Body eBook

Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807843147

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This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry an

Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1469620634

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This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works. Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's "poetry of the body" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, traditional poetics, and conservative politics. The sexual relation, with its promise of unity, love, equality, interpenetration, and productivity for partners, becomes a metaphor for all political and social relationships, including that of poet and reader. The effect of the poems is protopolitical, an altering of consciousness about the body's relation to other bodies, a shifting of the categories of knowledge that foretells political action. Killingsworth traces the interplay in Whitman's poetry between sexual and textual themes that derive from Whitman's political response to the historical turbulence of mid-century America. He describes a subtle shift in Whitman's prose writings on poetics, which turn from a view of poetry in the early 1850s as morally and politically efficacious to a chastened romanticism in the postwar years that frees the poet from responsibility for the world outside his poems. Later editions of Leaves of Grass are marked by the poet's deliberate repression of erotic themes in favor of a depoliticized aestheticism that views art not as a motivator of political and moral action but as an artifact embodying the soul of the genius.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1556439105

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"Earth, My Likeness is a collection of poetry by Walt Whitman that focuses on nature and contains much of his best and most vital work accompanied by beautiful watercolor illustrations"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781974098675

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Poems by Walt Whitman; art by Sam Torode.

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691176108

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In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1722525053

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One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. “Song of Myself”, a portion of Whitman’s monumental poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed of all American poems, it is written in Whitman’s signature free verse style, without a regular form, meter, or rhythm. His lines have a mesmerizing chant-like quality, as he sought to make poetry more appealing. Few poems are as fun to read aloud as this one. Considered to be the core of his poetic vision, this poem is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world in 1855. It is exhilarating, epic, and fresh in its brilliant and fascinating diction and wordplay as it tries to capture the unique meaning of words of the day, while also embracing the rapidly evolving vocabularies of the sciences and the streets. Far ahead of its time, it was considered by many social conservatives to be scandalous and obscene for its depiction of sexuality and desire, while at the same time, critics hailed the poem as a modern masterpiece. This first version of “Song of Myself” is far superior to the later versions and will delight readers with the playfulness of its diction as it glorifies the self, body, and soul. “I am large, I contain multitudes,”

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781450542043

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This is a full-color, illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's exquisite cycle of poems, "Children of Adam." Includes "I Sing the Body Electric," "From Pent Up Aching Rivers," and 14 other poems.