Die Geschichte eines Aufsteigers und des American Dream So schmutzig und glanzvoll ist Amerika: Der Waisenjunge Jack Engle wächst um 1850 im multikulturellen New York auf. Er muss lernen, sich zu behaupten zwischen Armut und Wohlstand,...

Ein fundamentales Werk der amerikanischen Literatur bis heute. Zu Lebzeiten war Whitman ein Outcast und Sonderling. Sein Lyrik wurde als obszön stigmatisiert. Wortgewaltig feiert er die Natur, den Menschen und die Schönheit des...

Die erste Fassung von Leaves of Grass erschien 1855, von Whitman selbst verlegt, und enthielt zwölf unbetitelte Gedichte. Der Autor überarbeitete und erweiterte sie in den kommenden Jahrzehnten: Ein Hohelied auf die Natur, auf Liebe,...

This deluxe 150th anniversary edition of Whitman's masterwork features the complete text of the 1855 poem in its original and complete form, with a specially commissioned introductory essay by bestselling critic Harold Bloom. von...

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Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While...

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In 1852, young Walt Whitman was hard at work writing two books. One, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is a short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and...

Walt Whitman exalts nature and celebrates the senses with his singular, penetrating free-form verses in this elegantly produced poetry collection. von Whitman, Walt

As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled 'Live Oak, With Moss.' The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's...

This anniversary edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself. The Afterword discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its...

For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was...