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À Beira Da Estrada - Repiques de Tambor

À Beira Da Estrada - Repiques de Tambor( )
Author: Whitman, Walt
Junior, Gentil
Series title:Folhas de Relva Ser.
ISBN:978-1-5075-0187-0
Publication Date:Jan 2015
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.90
Book Description:

Este sexto volume desta publicação em série de Folhas de Relva contém o livro Á BEIRA DA ESTRADA, integrante de Folhas de Relva a partir da edição de 1881, e que aparece, na edição final, a do Leito de Morte, 1891-92, após DETRITO MARINHO; e REPIQUES DE TAMBOR, que foi publicado originalmente separado em 1865 . Este último é uma coleção de poemas originados da experiência de Whitman durante a Guerra de Secessão, que ele viu de perto, ao trabalhar como enfermeiro voluntário nos...
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Book Details
Pages:90
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.23 Inches
Book Weight:0.42 Pounds
Author Biography
Whitman, Walt (Author)
Walt Whitman was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a carpenter. He left school when he was 11 years old to take a variety of jobs. By the time he was 15, Whitman was living on his own in New York City, working as a printer and writing short pieces for newspapers. He spent a few years teaching, but most of his work was either in journalism or politics. Gradually, Whitman became a regular contributor to a variety of Democratic Party newspapers and reviews, and early in his career established a rather eccentric way of life, spending a great deal of time walking the streets, absorbing life and talking with laborers. Extremely fond of the opera, he used his press pass to spend many evenings in the theater.

In 1846, Whitman became editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading Democratic newspaper. Two years later, he was fired for opposing the expansion of slavery into the west.

Whitman's career as a poet began in 1885, with the publication of the first edition of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The book was self-published (Whitman probably set some of the type himself), and despite his efforts to publicize it - including writing his own reviews - few people read it. One reader who did appreciate it was essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote a letter greeting Whitman at "the beginning of a great career." Whitman's poetry was unlike any verse that had ever been seen. Written without rhyme, in long, loose lines, filled with poetic lists and exclamations taken from Whitman's reading of the Bible, Homer, and Asian poets, these poems were totally unlike conventional poetry. Their subject matter, too, was unusual - the celebration of a free-spirited individualist whose love for all things and people seemed at times disturbingly sensual. In 1860, with the publication of the third edition on Leaves of Grass, Whitman alienated conventional thinkers and writers even more. When he went to Boston to meet Emerson, poet Henry



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