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Walt Whitman

Author: David S Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series: Lives and legacies.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Walt Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America." "Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. But perhaps nothing influenced Whitman more than the political events of his lifetime, as the struggle  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David S Reynolds
ISBN: 0195170091 9780195170092
OCLC Number: 54857583
Description: x, 159 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Life --
Popular culture, city life, and politics --
Theater, oratory, and music --
The visual arts --
Science, philosophy, and religion --
Sex, gender, and comradeship --
The Civil War, Lincoln, and Reconstruction.
Series Title: Lives and legacies.
Responsibility: David S. Reynolds.
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Part of the "Lives and Legacies" series, this volume places this influential American poet, Walt Whitman, in his historical contexts.  Read more...

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