The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Walt Whitman
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Author: Walt WhitmanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1977-07-28
ISBN: 0140422226
Number of pages: 896
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: !!!EMERALD!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
not only the greatest selling poet who has been dead for more than fifty years, not only the poet whose translations are regularly read abroad, not only the poet whose name has in-spired countless others, not only the poet who freed us from the manacles of rhyme and decapitated the tyranny of meter but also a man of enthusiasm, a titan, a man whose soul floods with belch, fume and quake, a man who confronts the ravenous centaurs of humdrum and blugeons them swiftly in a spasmo of frenzy-fire, a wanderer, a searcher, one whose mind travels vig-orously throughout the cosmimosa and embellishes it with jac-inths of thought and blooms of popy! not only a man of gargan-tuan passions, one who rages in the face of metallic storm but also a man whose depressions, fogs, glooms and sensitivity to flowers, softness and the defenseless bloom in stark heart-throb. no doubt he is a poet well worth a place beside such other titano-giants such as goethe, milton and homer, for he too sings the song of war, his book is a chanson of bellum for he sings of the battle of the passions, the climaximum of the emo-ceans, he challenges the raw specters of gash, their eyes oozing of slime-drab and rather than succumb to the oxen of indiffer-ence he instead triumphs over the gray and his book thus re-sounds in shinning claria! his is an adventure of thought sur-real in its gusto, jumping in its excitica and wild in its leap of ideas! thank celestium that he liberated us poets from the ab-surd manacles of rhyme and meter and we can now surge through horiza with countless new devices, metaphors and similies awaiting in our platoons! he is the cougar of innova-tion, the lion of spasmo and the giant of vision.
kyle foley, author of Lorelei Pursued and Wrestles with God
Summary of The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America?s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful ?Song of Myself? and ?I Sing the Body Electric? to the elegiac ?When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom?d,? Whitman?s art fuses oratory, journalism, and song in a vivid celebration of humanity. Containing all Whitman?s known poetic work, this edition reprints the final, or ?deathbed,? edition of Leaves of Grass (1891?92). Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 ?Song of Myself.?Poetry Books
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