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Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism (Paperback)
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Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism (Paperback)
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Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working
journalist. By the time he published the first edition of Leaves of
Grass in 1855, Whitman had edited three newspapers and published
thousands of reviews, editorials, and human-interest stories in
newspapers in and around New York City. Yet for decades, much of
his journalism has been difficult to access or even find. For the
first time, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism thematically and
chronologically organizes a compelling selection of Whitman's
journalism from the late 1830s to the Civil War. It includes
writings from the poet's first immersion into the burgeoning
democratic culture of antebellum America to the war that
transformed both the poet and the nation. Walt Whitman's Selected
Journalism covers Whitman's early years as a part-time editorialist
and ambivalent schoolteacher between 1838 and 1841. After 1841, it
follows his work as a dedicated full-time newspaperman and editor,
most prominently at the New York Aurora and the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle between 1842 and 1848. After 1848 and up to the Civil War,
Whitman's journalism shows his slow transformation from daily
newspaper editor to poet. This volume gathers journalism from
throughout these early years in his career, focusing on reporting,
reviews, and editorials on politics and democratic culture, the
arts, and the social debates of his day. It also includes some of
Whitman's best early reportage, in the form of the short, personal
pieces he wrote that aimed to give his readers a sense of immediacy
of experience as he guided them through various aspects of daily
life in America's largest metropolis. Over time, journalism's
limitations pushed Whitman to seek another medium to capture and
describe the world and the experience of America with words. In
this light, today's readers of Whitman are doubly indebted to his
career in journalism. In presenting Whitman-the-journalist in his
own words here, and with useful context and annotations by renowned
scholars, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism illuminates for
readers the future poet's earliest attempts to speak on behalf of
and to the entire American republic.
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