Walt Whitman

Personalidad entusiasta, esperanzadora, desbordante, de excepcional sensibilidad hacia la naturaleza, nadie expresa como Walt Whitman y su obra "Hojas de hierba" la esperanza en el alba de lo que realmente, en sus origenes, representaba el imaginario de los Estados Unidos de America: un estado nuevo en un mundo nuevo, una tierra virgen en la que todo parecia, aun, posible. Raza, condicion sexual, capacidad economica..., nada de ello era obstaculo para el "nuevo hombre" que Whitman, aun con los altibajos inevitables que provocan la historia y la naturaleza humanas, quiso encarnar.Seleccion y traduccion de Manuel Villar Raso

Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking. Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality. His verse is a fitting celebration of a new breed of American and includes Song of Myself, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, the celebratory Passage to India, and his fine elegy for the assassinated President Lincoln, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

Un canto a la vida, a la libertad, al yo, a la belleza, a la poesía...Prólogo de Luna Miguel.Traducción José Luis Chamosa González y Rosa Rabadán.«Camarada, esto no es un libro; quien toca esto toca

Hojas de hierba es la gran epopeya americana y una de las grandes epopeyas de la literatura universal: con una voz tan vigorosa como sutil, canta el nacimiento de los Estados Unidos y su desarrollo como nacion. Sus poemas recogen la bullente diversidad del pais, sus heterogeneos pobladores y sus paisajes inabarcables, y su caracter indomito, irreverente, exento de artificios. Es una epica democratica, que arrumba los viejos principios de las sociedades europeas y las igualmente viejas esteticas que los ensalzaban, y proclama las esperanzas y necesidades del Nuevo Mundo, donde ricos y pobres, hombres y mujeres, blancos y negros, estan llamados a ser libres e iguales, y los afectos imperan sobre los intereses. Pero Hojas de hierba es tambien el retrato de una persona, Walt Whitman, que vierte sus pasiones singulares y sus anhelos mas intimos en sus paginas: 'Esto no es un libro: / quien lo toca, toca a un hombre', escribe en un poema tardio. El amor por la naturaleza, la fuerza de su erotismo, la turbulencia de la vida en Nueva York y el abrumador impetu musical de su voz encuentran un eco dilatado en los poemas del libro. Para Harold Bloom, Whitman constituye el centro del canon norteamericano, porque toda 'voz que en nuestra literatura contemporanea se alza en soledad, herida

Considerado de forma unánime el máximo poeta de Estados Unidos, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) es el supremo cantor del Yo y de la naturaleza, del cuerpo y del alma, de la igualdad del hombre y la mujer, de las delicias del sexo, de la fraternidad y la democracia. Profundamente renovadora en cuanto a forma y contenido, su obra suscito una oleada de entusiasmo y controversias. Aparecida en 1855, "Hojas de hierba" vio nueve ediciones corregidas y aumentadas en vida del poeta. La presente antologia bilingue, traducida, prologada y anotada por Manuel Villar Raso, ofrece los poemas de Whitman en sus primeras versiones, en las cuales el impulso que les dio origen se manifiesta con mayor fidelidad que en las ultimas, expurgadas por el propio poeta.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, 'Leaves of Grass' has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature.A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of themes, encompassing American identity and cultural values, democracy, nature and the mysteries of the human spirit. Featuring the poems of the original 1855 edition, 'Leaves of Grass' remains an influential work within the American literary tradition, studied and treasured around the world.

Walt Whitman va néixer a West Hills, comtat de Suffolk (Nova York), l’any 1819 en el cor d’una família nombrosa que creia en els ideals quàquers, uns ideals marcats per la responsabilitat i per una e

Specimen Days is a series of diary entries about Whitmans life, from his boyhood days at Rockaway Beach, to his nursing days in Washington D.C during the Civil War, and finally to his time in Camden New Jersey. His account of the Civil War Hospitals is painful to read, but his kindness and ministrations to the wounded soldiers (writing them letters home and giving them horehound candy) are really touching. He estimated that visited between 80,000 and 100,000 young men. My great grandfather was in one of those hospitals, so I like to think that Walt stopped by to give him some candy and talk. After the war, Whitman came down with an illness and was partially paralyzed. He moved to Camden and spent his afternoons outside in nature. He attributes his rebound in health to this time and wrote many essays about the outdoors and the nature around him.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Walt Whitman" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Table of Contents:Poetry:Leaves of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition):Song of MyselfA Song for OccupationsTo Think of TimeThe SleepersI Sing the Body ElectricFaces Song of the AnswererEurope the 72d and 73d Years of These StatesA Boston BalladThere Was a Child Went ForthWho Learns My Lesson CompleteGreat Are the MythsLeaves of Grass (The Final Edition):InscriptionsStarting from PaumanokSong of MyselfChildren of AdamCalamusSalut au Monde!Song of the Open RoadCrossing Brooklyn FerrySong of the AnswererOur Old FeuillageA Song of JoysSong of the Broad-AxeSong of the ExpositionSong of the Redwood-TreeA Song for OccupationsA Song of the Rolling EarthBirds of PassageA Broadway PageantSea-DriftBy the RoadsideDrum-TapsMemories of President LincolnBy Blue Ontarios ShoreAutumn RivuletsProud Music of the StormPassage to IndiaPrayer of ColumbusThe SleepersTo Think of TimeWhispers of Heavenly DeathThou Mother with Thy Equal BroodFrom Noon to Starry NightSongs of PartingSands at SeventyGood-Bye My FancyOther PoemsNovels:Franklin EvansLife and Adventures of Jack EngleShort Stories:The Half-BreedBervance; or, Father and SonThe Tomb-BlossomsThe Last of the Sacred ArmyThe Child-GhostReubens Last WishA Legend of Life and LoveThe Angel of TearsThe Death of Wind-FootThe MadmanEris; A Spirit RecordMy Boys and GirlsThe Firemans DreamThe Little SleighersShirval: A Tale of JerusalemRichard Parkers WidowSome Fact-RomancesThe Shadow and the Light of a Young Mans SoulOther Works:Manly Health and TrainingSpecimen DaysCollectNotes Left OverPieces in Early YouthNovember BoughsGood-Bye My FancySome Laggards YetLetters:The Wound DresserThe Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

This meticulously edited Walt Whitman collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Table of Contents:Poetry:Leaves of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition):Song of MyselfA Song for OccupationsTo Think of TimeThe SleepersI Sing the Body ElectricFaces Song of the AnswererEurope the 72d and 73d Years of These StatesA Boston BalladThere Was a Child Went ForthWho Learns My Lesson CompleteGreat Are the MythsLeaves of Grass (The Final Edition):InscriptionsStarting from PaumanokSong of MyselfChildren of AdamCalamusSalut au Monde!Song of the Open RoadCrossing Brooklyn FerrySong of the AnswererOur Old FeuillageA Song of JoysSong of the Broad-AxeSong of the ExpositionSong of the Redwood-TreeA Song for OccupationsA Song of the Rolling EarthBirds of PassageA Broadway PageantSea-DriftBy the RoadsideDrum-TapsMemories of President LincolnBy Blue Ontarios ShoreAutumn RivuletsProud Music of the StormPassage to IndiaPrayer of ColumbusThe SleepersTo Think of TimeWhispers of Heavenly DeathThou Mother with Thy Equal BroodFrom Noon to Starry NightSongs of PartingSands at SeventyGood-Bye My FancyOther PoemsNovels:Franklin EvansLife and Adventures of Jack EngleShort Stories:The Half-BreedBervance; or, Father and SonThe Tomb-BlossomsThe Last of the Sacred ArmyThe Child-GhostReubens Last WishA Legend of Life and LoveThe Angel of TearsThe Death of Wind-FootThe MadmanEris; A Spirit RecordMy Boys and GirlsThe Firemans DreamThe Little SleighersShirval: A Tale of JerusalemRichard Parkers WidowSome Fact-RomancesThe Shadow and the Light of a Young Mans SoulOther Works:Manly Health and TrainingSpecimen DaysCollectNotes Left OverPieces in Early YouthNovember BoughsGood-Bye My FancySome Laggards YetLetters:The Wound DresserThe Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

Walt Withman empezó este diario a fines de 1862, en pleno fragor de la guerra de secesión que asoló los Estados Unidos de América. A su condición de poeta, Withman sumaba la de periodista, por eso estas paginas estan tocadas por la sensibilidad del artista, pero tambien por la inmediatez y el rigor informativo de quien participo activamente en los hechos de unos dias memorables y quiso dejar constancia de ellos con unos apuntes tomados a vuela pluma sobre el terreno.Es este un libro conmovedor, hecho de rapidos y certeros bocetos, pinceladas intuitivas, energicas y vibrantes; un libro complementario de su obra poetica, en cuyas paginas late la misma grandiosidad contenida en lo apenas apreciable, identica comunion con la naturaleza, igual comprension, e igual afecto, hacia las personas, sus ideas, sus emociones y sus peripecias vitales.

Un pòster. Per una cara, la fotografia d''un autor radical. Per l''altra, la seva obra. Poetes universals traduïts al català per poetes actuals. L''escriptor com a traductor. Una col·lecció d''autors

Muchas versiones y traducciones se han publicado de la poesía de Walt Whitman, incluidas las célebres de Borges, León Felipe, Francisco Alexander y otros. Ninguna como ésta, por la empatía y el apego que demuestra su traductora para con el espiritu y el texto original whitmanianos. El Canto de mi mismo de Ana Rosa Gonzalez Matute viene a demostrar la vigencia de este poeta -una de las figuras emblematicas de la cultura norteamericana- y el vigor todavia inagotado de su poesia.

Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published "Drum-Taps," his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, "Drum-Taps" also helped to create a new, modern poetry of war, a poetry not just of patriotic exhortation but of somber witness. "Drum-Taps" is thus a central work not only of the Civil War but of our war-torn times. But "Drum-Taps" as readers know it from "Leaves of Grass" is different from the work of 1865. Whitman cut and reorganized the book, reducing its breadth of feeling and raw immediacy. This edition, the first to present the book in its original form since its initial publication 150 years ago, is a revelation, allowing one of Whitman's greatest achievements to appear again in all its troubling glory.

En commençant mes études le premier pas m’a plu si fort,Le simple fait de la conscience, ces formes, la motilité,Le moindre insecte ou animal, les sens, la vue, l’amour,Le premier pas, dis-je, m’a fr

Whitman escribió Días ejemplares en la vejez con el propósito de dejar constancia de lo que había sido su vida en unos momentos muy convulsos de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Con motivo de un viaje a la tierra de sus antepasados, concibio el proyecto autobiografico del que ya habia escrito la parte de la Guerra Civil. Ademas, utilizo fragmentos de sus colaboraciones periodisticas que trataban del viaje que hizo al oeste del pais y donde encontro el alma y la energia de los estadounidenses. Esta edicion presenta, por primera vez en España, el texto completo del libro e incluye los años de infancia y juventud en Brooklyn, los años que paso como voluntario en los hospitales de Washington durante la Guerra Civil, la estancia en el campo para recuperarse de la hemiplejia que sufrio y su viaje al oeste. Acompañan a la traduccion una introduccion que situa en el contexto historico y literario de la epoca estos Dias ejemplares, y notas a pie de pagina que pretenden despejar las dudas culturales, historicas y textuales que el texto suscita.

The Americans, of all nations at any time upon the earth, have probably the fullest poetical Nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings, necessarily blind to particulars and details, magnificently moving in vast masses.