Author: Walt Whitman
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Song of Myself,” the premier poem in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is widely believed to be one of the most important poems in American literature. A large part of the brilliance of “Song of Myself” is the raffish playfulness of its diction—the poem belongs to the mid-nineteenth century’s love of wordplay that also characterizes Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. Walt Whitman was deeply interested in the American language as it was emerging in his time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp’s lexicon walks us through his greatest poem and, in its footsteps, much is revealed about the words Whitman chose in 1855—their inflections, meanings, and native usages we wouldn’t otherwise know. We are made to understand, perhaps truly for the first time, Whitman’s query in “Song of Myself”: “Have you felt so proud to get to the meaning of poems?” In the first part of the collection, Hass offers an introduction to the poem and then, with Ebenkamp, a rich annotation of “Song of Myself.” The second part of this book includes poems from the span of Whitman’s career, selected by Hass,that give us a fresh look at the beauty, authority, and sweep of Whitman’s work. / Walt Whitman en 1855 publicó de manera casi clandestina la primera versión de un libro titulado Hojas de hierba (Leaves of Grass), que habría de convertirse con el tiempo en la piedra angular de la moderna poesía norteamericana. La obra era una especie de manifiesto revolucionario en contra de la dominación cultural europea, y sus versos libres, cargados del lenguaje de la gente común, rompían radicalmente con las tradiciones poéticas más veneradas de su época. Whitman dedicó el resto de su vida a enriquecer, aumentar y reelaborar sus Hojas de hierba, cuya octava edición ya rebasaba las quinientas páginas, y en especial el Canto a mí mismo (Song of Myself), uno de sus capítulos más bellos y audaces. Whitman nació en Long Island, Nueva York, el 31 de mayo de 1819, y murió en Camden, Nueva Jersey, en 1892. Hijo de un carpintero pobre y enfermo, abandonó la escuela pública cuando apenas tenía trece años para trabajar en diversos oficios, desde mensajero de un despacho de abogados hasta editor de varios periódicos
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
BISAC Code: POE005010
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