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Had five years of schooling and a good deal of "loafing" and reading.
Tried at a various of jobs and picked up a first-hand knowledge of life and people in the new world.
Worked as an office boy, a printer's apprentice, schoolmaster, printer, editor (of eight successive newspapers ), and journalist.
美国文学惠特曼
1848, traveled to New Orleans and saw much of the Mississippi heartlands.
1871, the fifth edition ——began to receive recognition in England and America
1876, two volumes, Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets
1881, the seventh edition ——first published by a reputation publisher, but was banned
美国文学惠特曼
R eleased a second edition of the book in 1856, containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Whitman in response.
in American literature
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A part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism
He believed the American poets would create both new forms and new subject matter for poetry.
1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass came out (contained 12 poems).
During the Civil War, worked as a volunteer nurse, a "wound-dresser" in military hospitals.
is noble for its frank delight in and praise of the senses
most of the poems are about man and nature,praise the nature and the individaul human's role therein
美国文学惠特曼 Leaves of Grass《草叶集》
"Grass" means——
the image of the common people a symbol of rising America an enbodiment of his ideals about democracy
and freedom
Leaves of Grass《草叶集》
nine editions，from 95 pages,12 poems to 400 pages,401 poems
the first American genuine epic poems
a collection of poems written mainly in free verse
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After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery.
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美国文学惠特曼
1855, the first edition, 12 poems ——did not sell well but made a stir on the America literary scene
1856, the secnd edition, 33 poems 1860, the third edition, 122 poems 1867, the fourth edition
美国文学惠特曼
Wang Ruixian 2014.12.13
美国文学惠特曼
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Position
美国文学惠特曼
A poet, an essayist , A journalist, a humanist A giant of American letters The father of free verse One of the great innovators
Continued to revise and expand his Leaves of Grass, and it went through 9 editions altogether.
1873, suffered a paralytic stroke. died on March 26, 1892.
He announced and instructed a complete new age.
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美国文学惠特曼
Born on May 31, 1819, the second son of a house-builder.
Brought up in a working-class background on Long Island, New York.
