{"title":"Books by Walt Whitman","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman stands as one of the defining voices of nineteenth‑century American poetry, whose bold free verse and democratic spirit reshaped literary tradition. His work celebrates the individual while embracing the shared pulse of humanity, merging personal experience with a sweeping vision of the nation and the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned for his innovative style and unflinching honesty, Whitman's writing continues to inspire readers with its vitality and compassion. His influence can be traced through generations of poets and thinkers who found in his words a timeless affirmation of life, freedom, and the power of the human voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you this author? Drop us a line to update your details \u003cb\u003ehello@bookcurl.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-complete-poems-of-walt-whitman-9781853264337","title":"The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman'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'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Editions Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47850660299095,"sku":"9781853264337","price":6.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781853264337.jpg?v=1710617648"},{"product_id":"song-of-myself-9780099595540","title":"Song of Myself","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalt Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e was born on 31 May 1819 in Long Island, New York. Without much formal education, he began work at an early age as an office boy, printer and school teacher. His first major collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, was self-published in 1855.  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Having survived a paralysing stroke in 1873, Whitman left Washington for Camden, New Jersey, where he\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/h2\u003eGrand but intimate, earthy but also dreamy * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eWhitman had a fluid personality that made him able to ''merge'' invisibly, and with great empathy, with the images of other people and events that lodged in his mind...unprecedented assembling of rhythm, sound, language and images * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe great unrhymed, long-lined, self-celebratory sensation of the 1850s * Lost Angeles Times *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732326560087,"sku":"9780099595540","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099595540.jpg?v=1719996424"},{"product_id":"leaves-of-grass-9780140421996","title":"Leaves of Grass","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003eAs Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e ''might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing'', for it exhibits ''Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience.'' Mr Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars, faithfully edited it, added his own introduction and Whitman''s original introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman''s life), and returned it to the common readership to whom the great poet really speaks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/h2\u003e“Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman the one pioneer . . . Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none.” \u003cb\u003e—D. H. 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Famously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms, and containing celebrated poems such as the ebullient ‘Song of Myself’ – described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written – and the elegiac ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’, \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e is not only the finest achievement of a highly unique poet, but a founding text for American literature and modern poetry.  Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819–92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time, his sprawling collection \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e is regarded as his magnum opus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/h2\u003eWhitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman the one man breaking a way ahead. 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