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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
From: et Cetera
Date: 19960101
Author:Levinson, Martin H
David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. Vintage: New York, 1996. Walt Whitman said, "In estimating my volumes[,] the world's current times and needs [i.e., nineteenthcentury], and their spirit, must first be profoundly estimated." David S. Reynolds in Walt Whitman's America has done just this in an absorbing well-researched cultural biography of one of America's greatest poets. Reynolds demonstrates how Whitman gathered images from virtually every cultural arena and transformed them through his powerful personality into poetry.
Whitman's theory of poetry was based on ...
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