TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reynolds,David S.
TI  - Walt Whitman's America: a cultural biography 
SN  - 0394580230
AV  - B PS 3231 W615R 1995
U1  - 811/.3 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Whitman, Walt,
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poetas estadounidenses
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Biografías
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-638) and index; "Underneath all, nativity": literary genealogy, literary geography --
A Brooklyn boyhood: sights, surroundings, influences --
Dark passages: teaching and early authorship --
Mannahatta: the literary marketplace and urban reality --
"The United States need poets": the political and social crisis --
American performances: theater, oratory, music --
"Sex is the root of it all": eroticism and gender --
Earth, body, soul: science and religion --
Toward a popular aesthetic: the visual arts --
"I contain multitudes": the first edition of Leaves of Grass. "The murderous delays": in search of an audience --
Brotherly love, national war: into the 1860s --
"My book and the war are one": the Washington years --
Reconstructing a nation, reconstructing a poet: postbellum institutions --
The burden of atlas: the new America --
The pope of Mickle Street: the final years
N2  - Exploring the full range of writings by and about Whitman - not just his most famous work but also his earliest poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks - Reynolds gives us a full, rounded picture of the man, of his creative blending of disparate ideas and images, and his contradictory stances on race, class, and gender. Whitman's uniqueness is shown to spring
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