Essential Whitman
Publisher: Ecco
Published: March 14, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780060887926
Description: "The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense.... Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world.... Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry."--Publisher's website.