The better angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War
"The wounded, he wrote, 'opened a new world for me ... bursting the petty bonds of art.' He visited them daily, bringing gifts of ice cream, tobacco, or books; wrote letters for them; and offered to all the healing influence of his sympathy and affection. Indeed, several soldiers later said that Whitman had saved their lives. But if Whitman gave much to the soldiers, they in turn gave much to him. In witnessing their stoic suffering, in listening to their understated speech, and in being always in the presence of death, Whitman evolved the new and more direct poetic style that culminated in his masterpiece, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.'"--Résumé de l'éditeur
Biography
1 ressource en ligne (ix, 270 pages)
9780198028895, 9786610471614, 019802889X, 6610471614
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