Walt Whitman

Books: The Library of America

Buy from Amazon.com I've been meaning to write about the Library of America for some time, but today, browsing Amazon, I found that they are selling the entire collection of 183 books from the Library of America in one lot....

EN267 2008-09

Term I Week 1: Introduction Week 2: Environmental theory i: Richard Powers, ‘The Seventh Event’ [handout] Week 3: Romantic ecology i: William Wordsworth, selected poetry, including ‘Tintern Abbey’ ‘The Ruined Cottage’ and...

Poems from this broken world

In the second half of the 19th century, the United States produced Walt Whitman, a poet who loved the world in all its forms and manifestations, from the grandeur of its oceans and mountains and the exuberant energy of its...

Cutting costs in a tough economy

I have bad news. In the midst of the worldwide economic meltdown we are experiencing these days, I have taken a hard look at revenue from this column and find that I am earning but a tiny fraction of the $6.5 million I had...

Book review: The Sun and the Moon

Published Date: 30 November 2008 Matthew Goodman Basic Books, £16.99 LET'S face it: no one would buy a book if its subtitle were 'Veracity And Celebrity: The Rise Of Tabloid Journalism In America, 1832-1844'. It's therefore a...

Requiem

Nov 29, 2008

O living always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever; O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;) O to disengage myself...

WOUNDED: A look at the Civil War and Walt Whitman

"War" takes a look at how the Civil War shaped Walt Whitman's life and poetry. Review: Roper gives us a full, human portrait of Whitman, showing how his work tending wounded Civil War soldiers broadened and deepened his life...

Good Reads: On Chesil Beach

"Most mothers think that to keep young people away from lovemaking it is enough never to speak of it in their presence." – Marie Madeleine de la Fayette The Princesse de Cleves, 1678 Author Ian McEwan, winner of the National...

Winter magical in Adirondacks

Hemlocks, carpets of leaves, spruce flats, aroma of pine needles, warblers, hawks, silver birches, the swish of the cathedral white pines – this is the Adirondack forest. Drive north from Utica about three hours to the High...

Viewpoint: Cutting costs in a tough economy

I have bad news. In the midst of the worldwide economic meltdown we are experiencing these days, I have taken a hard look at revenue from this column and find that I am earning but a tiny fraction of the $6.5 million I had...

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