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ウォルト・ホイットマン. ウォルター・ホイットマン ( 英語: Walter Whitman, 1819年 5月31日 – 1892年 3月26日) は、 アメリカ合衆国 の 詩人 、 随筆家 、 ジャーナリスト 、 ヒューマニスト 。. 超越主義 から 写実主義 への過渡期を代表する人物の一人で、作品には ...
Whitman's Drum-Taps in a Time of War - While poets like John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, and Alan Seeger are defined by their war poems, even categorized as “war poets” for the active role they played on the battlefield and the sometimes brutal honesty with which they reported the horrors and tragedies of war, perhaps somewhat less discussed is Walt Whitman, who provided his own account of his ...
Jan 30, 2020 · Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) is one of the most significant American writers of the 19th century, and many critics consider him the nation's greatest poet. His book "Leaves of Grass," which he edited and expanded over the course of his life, is a masterpiece of American literature.
Walt Whitman 101. Celebrating everybody’s radical poet. By Benjamin Voigt. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. Few poets have had such lasting impact as Walt Whitman. Widely considered the American father of free verse, Whitman has been celebrated by poets from Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda to Langston Hughes and Patricia Lockwood.
May 11, 2018 · Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is generally considered to be the most important American poet of the 19th century. He wrote in free verse, relying heavily on the rhythms of native American speech. In all, over a 37-year period, Walt Whitman published nine separate editions of his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass.
Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul, and found beauty and...
Jun 10, 2017 · Walt Whitman (1819-92), with his innovative free verse and celebration of the American landscape, made his poetry a sort of literary declaration of independence, seeking to move away from the literary tradition associated with the Old World and forge a new, distinctly American literature. Below are ten of Whitman’s greatest poems which ...
