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The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry (Hardcover)
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The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry (Hardcover)
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Walt Whitman stands freshly illuminated in this powerful portrait
of the poet responding to his times. Whitman's idealistic
expectations of democracy were painfully eroded by the rapidly
expanding urban capitalism that, before the Civil War, increasingly
threatened the economic and political power of the ordinary
American. His poetry during this, his most fruitful period, became
the indispensable medium allowing him to adjust to these
developments. He succeeded in portraying this modern society as an
invigorating natural extension of the artisanal order. After the
war, however, American capitalism advanced at a pace that made it
impossible for Whitman to redeem it through his poetry. His
imagination defeated by realities, he invested more and more in
dreams of the future, while his poetry turned to the past, Memory
emerging as a central figure. In this many-sided analysis M. Wynn
Thomas relates Whitman's work to American painting of the period;
examines the poet's evocation of nature, which he sometimes saw as
a challenge to man's confidence in himself; documents the revisions
and additions Whitman made to Leaves of Grass in order to
demonstrate that "my Book and the War are One"; and pays
sympathetic attention to the postwar poetry, usually slighted.
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