num_pages: 608
description: 
  This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781853264337
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.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'.
language: English
title: Complete Poems of Whitman
titlecomplete: Complete Poems of Whitman (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Poetry, Philosophy, Classic Literature, School, Literature, Classics, 19th Century
ratings_count: 104087
places: Washington, D.C., New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd