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By Walt Whitman. A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand,
Learn more about Walt Whitman's novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (2017), which was rediscovered in 2016 and republished the following year and was said to foreshadow his best-known collection of verse, Leaves of Grass (first published in 1855). Walt Whitman is known primarily for Leaves of Grass, though it is actually more than one book.
There is nothing heroic in this portrait; it is a close, intimate look at an old man who seems tired, tired even of being Walt Whitman. “There was a period early on in my career in which I tried ...
Song of the Open Road. By Walt Whitman. 1. Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Walter „Walt“ Whitman [volt vitmen] ( 31. května 1819 Huntington, Long Island, New York – 26. března 1892 Camden, New Jersey) byl americký spisovatel a novinář, jeden ze zakladatelů moderní americké poezie a průkopník civilismu. Patří mezi nejvlivnější americké básníky, byl označován za básníka demokracie. Jeho ...
After working as clerk, teacher, journalist and laborer, Whitman wrote his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, pioneering free verse poetry in a humanistic celebration of humanity, in 1855. Emerson, who. Walter Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and ...
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