Name: Walt Whitman Looks at the School
SKU: 58521037
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Author: Whitman, Walt
ISBN: 9781473309852

portada Walt Whitman Looks at the School

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Aslan Press

Language

English

Pages

298

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.7 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781473309852

Synopsis "Walt Whitman Looks at the School"

Most remembered for his seminal poetic work Leaves of Grass, a different side of the great Walt Whitman is seen in this scarce text: the keen American educationalist. This book contains more than a hundred paragraphs, book reviews, and articles on the state of New York's educational system, written by Whitman while he was a reporter and editor for the Brooklyn Evening Star and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1845 to 1848. These fascinating observations and recommendations provide an insight into Whitman's passion for educational reform, constituting a must-read for both admirers of the great poet's writing and those interested in the history of the American Education system. Born in Huntington, Long Island, Walter Whitman was an American essayist, journalist, and poet, having also worked as a teacher, government clerk, and as a voluntary nurse during the American Civil War. This rare text was originally published in 1950 and is proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of the author.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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