Description Embed yourself in nineteenth-Century America, With Walt Whitman...
Over 300 period images, including paintings, in full color, and extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and a few enemies) bring to life the places, people, and tempestuous events of Walt\'s time: a family harrowed by mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; friends and lovers; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward.
Jean Huets has made a book of marvels and I can\'t put it down." -- Steve Scafidi, author of To the Bramble and the Briar, and recipient of prizes including Miller Williams Prize, and Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry.
The book keeps opening up to new facets of Whitman, his work, and his era." -- Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and Co-Director of The Walt Whitman Archive"With Walt Whitman, Himself is perfectly titled for to read of him so closely is to feel his eyes upon you, to sense his company as real as your own.
The descriptions of his life and times are concise and smart.
Illustrations of Whitman\'s places, friends, family, disciples, contemporaries--his cities and his rural retreats. "A true Whitmanian feast--for the intellect as well as for the eyes....
Description Embed yourself in nineteenth-Century America, With Walt Whitman...
Over 300 period images, including paintings, in full color, and extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and a few enemies) bring to life the places, people, and tempestuous events of Walt\'s time: a family harrowed by mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; friends and lovers; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward
