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 RasoPersonalidad 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

El ensayo Perspectivas democráticas, así como el resto de cartas y apuntes fragmentarios que integran la presente edición, son probablemente las más importantes obras en prosa de Walt Whitman, escritas en plena Guerra de Secesión (donde ejerció de voluntario y enfermero de la Unión) y pocos años después, durante la reconstrucción nacional. Sin abandonar en ningún momento su célebre tono lírico, el autor nos ofrece un inolvidable canto a la libertad política, en una de las mejores defensas escritas sobre la democracia.

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

Testigo de los muchos cambios socioeconómicos y políticos que continuaban erosionando los principios republicanos, y de los innumerables intentos por recomponer el imaginario colectivo democrático norteamericano a traves de nuevas formas de intervencion publicas, Whitman, fervoroso creyente en las posibilidades que encerraba la prensa como herramienta ideologica al servicio de la mejora social, elabora en estas narraciones una voz profundamente enraizada en las retoricas populares y sensacionalistas de preguerra, con el fin de restañar las heridas abiertas en la utopica comunidad republicana imaginada por los padres fundadores. La produccion de relatos de Walt Whitman se concentra entre agosto de 1841 y junio de 1848, y se compone de veinticuatro textos, que aparecieron en muchas ocasiones con pseudonimo o sin firmar. El mismo haria una seleccion que apareceria en "Specimen Days & Collect" (1882). Su ficcion criticara los males derivados de la acumulacion de capital, del poder y la corrupcion empresariales, de la opresion de los trabajadores y de las mujeres, y del fanatismo religioso, entre otros temas. En realidad, quien surge tras la lectura de estos relatos no es otro que el mismo Whitman que aparecera en esencia en su poesia: el hombre compasivo, un individuo capaz de situarse en la posicion del otro.

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death.

It is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, Leaves of Grass, on the basis of its obscene sexual imagery. A century later, his poem O Captain! My Captain! featured in the movie Dead Poets Society. Then, the US TV series Breaking Bad included numerous Walt Whitman references in different episodes.Some argue that he was ahead of his time. It is certainly the case that he was a one-off.Leaves of Grass, which was first published as a handful of poems and grew to more than 400, is a loosely-connected collection. It focuses on the body and the material world and celebrates the natural world. The poems do not rhyme and do not follow any accepted rules. But they capture peoples imagination - and have a place among the greatest works of US poetry.

Pocos poetas poseen una voz tan personal, poderosa e influyente como Walt Whitman. Así lo afirma Juan Marqués en su presentación: "el poeta de WestHills consiguió, sencillamente, decirlo todo. Whitman inauguro un mundo, afirmo o insinuo en el todo lo que deseaba o necesitaba afirmar o insinuar delnuestro y despues lo clausuro, obteniendo y brindandonos un producto perfecto, macizo, sin grietas. Lo que cantaba de si mismo lo canto de todos nosotros,lo que dijo de America lo extendia a todos los rincones del universo".Hemos seleccionado para esta antologia veintiseis poemas del celebre Canto de mi mismo, con una nueva traduccion de Antonio Rivero Taravillo y unimpresionante trabajo grafico de Kike de la Rubia.

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

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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman. Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. Whitman was intentional in not organizing the book in any chronological way. Instead, he was concerned with the journey of the poetry. He desired that the reader would see a self formed through the words and themes of the book. He writes poems of a political, social, personal, and sexual nature, all ideas that he will elaborate on in later sections. Walt Whitman published and designed The First Edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. The edition included twelve untitled poems, which were named in later editions. He included no mention of the author, only his name on the copyright and in one line of the first poem, which is later titled "Song of Myself". Whitmans final edition, the 1891-92 edition, also known as "The Deathbed Edition," is simply grammatical corrections of the 1881 edition, and the addition of "November Boughs" as a supplement, "Good-Bye my Fancy" as a second supplement, and "A Backward Glance Oer Travelld Roads" as the closing essay. Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

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.

Nel 1855 Walt Whitman, il grande poeta dell'anima americana, dava alla luce le prime "Foglie d'erba", ovvero le prime poesie che comporranno la raccolta di una vita. Il grande edificio delle Foglie d'erba crescerà, una zolla dopo l'altra, una poesia dopo l'altra, un'edizione dopo l'altra, per tutta la vita di Whitman. Solo sul letto di morte il poeta mise la parola "fine" a questa raccolta, ricca come una vita umana e sconfinata come la natura che tanto amava. La prima edizione resta tuttavia la testimonianza più viva della novità della poesia di Whitman, di quella superiore indifferenza alle rigidità della metrica classica, di quello slancio, che lo renderanno unico e ne garantiranno l'immortalità artistica.

As I sit here by the creek, resting after my walk, a warm languor bathes me from the sun. No sound but a cawing of crows, and no motion but their black flying figures from over-head, reflected in the mirror of the pond below. Indeed a principal feature of the scene today is these crows, their incessant cawing, far or near, and their countless flocks and processions moving from place to place, and at times almost darkening the air with their myriads. As I sit a moment writing this by the bank, I see the black, clear-cut reflection of them far below, flying through the watery looking-glass, by ones, twos, or long strings. All last night I heard the noises from their great roost in a neighboring wood.