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050 1 4 _aB PS 3231
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100 1 _aReynolds, David S.,
_d1948-
_97076
245 1 0 _aWalt Whitman's America :
_ba cultural biography /
_cDavid S. Reynolds.
250 _a1st Vintage books ed
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage Books,
_c1996.
300 _axii, 671 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995.
505 _a"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.
520 _aA 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.
586 _aWinner of Ambassador Book Award 1996 Winner of Bancroft Prize. Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.
600 1 0 _aWhitman, Walt,
_d1819-1892
_xKnowledge
_zAmerica.
600 1 0 _aWhitman, Walt,
_q(Walter),
_d1819-1892
_97073
650 0 _aPoets, American
_y19th century
_vBiography.
650 4 _aPoetas estadounidenses
_ySiglo XIX
_vBiografĂ­as
_99839
651 0 _aUnited States
_xCivilization
_y19th century.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/94012841.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/94012841.html
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