TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reynolds,David S.
TI  - Walt Whitman's America: a cultural biography 
SN  - 0679767096
AV  - B PS 3231 W615R 1996
U1  - 811/.3 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books, 
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  - Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995; "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  - A study of the life and works of one of America's finest poets is set against the social, cultural, and political backdrop of his time, offering new insights into his poetry, ideas, and imagery
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/94012841.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/94012841.html
ER  -