Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is a clarion call to his country's people to join together in the "crowning growth of the United States". Its patriotic zeal made him a symbol of democracy in his country long before he achieved fame there as a poet.The intense emotion of Whitman's verse celebrates the regenerative power of nature and the immortal divinity of the human soul. His passionate beliefs are evident throughout this volume - in the radical "I Sing the Body Electric"; the patriotic "I Hear America Singing"; and the romantic "As if a Phantom Caress'd Me".This collection (the so-called "deathbed" edition of 1892) represents the culmination of Whitman's life's work and contains more than 400 poems.

''I obey my happy hour''s command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don''t do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.''One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman''s autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world''s best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical in expression, and rich in experiential content, Specimen Days still awaits a much wider readership than it has hitherto commanded. Whitman gives us his life as lived in relation to the shifting urban and rural ecologies of a young nation -a nation that had freshly emerged from catastrophic civil war and that was assuming the vanguard of artistic, technological, economic, political, and philosophical modernity.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Gathered together for the first time, Walt Whitman''s urgently needed prose writings on the democratic spirit and the soul of the nation. 12 short works encapsulate the American Bard''s fiery passions and timeless wisdom for today.Here for the first time in a convenient pocket edition are all of Walt Whitman’s essential prose writings on democracy, including his unforgettable reflections on the roots on American division, the fearful legacy of the Civil War, and shining example of Abraham Lincoln. Few writers have been as harsh in their condemnation of America’s sins and spiritual shortcomings or as abiding in his faith in democratic ideals as Whitman. His clarion voice speaks to us with renewed urgency today.Gathered here are:“The Eighteenth Presidency!,” written during the 1856 presidential campaign, in which Whitman expresses his rage over the immediate prospects for American democracyDemocratic Vistas (1871), in which he dramatizes his role as poet-prophet of a better Americathe searing essay “Origins of Attempted Secession” and shorter extracts on democracy from the classic book Specimen Days (1882).In his introduction, acclaimed political observer David Bromwich examines Whitman’s political prose writings and highlights why they matter today.

Číta: Martin Geišberg Walt Whitman(1819 – 1892) bol americkým básnikom, esejistom, novinárom a humanistom. Je považovaný za jedného z najosobitejších amerických básnikov 19. storočia. Je autorom monumentálnej zbierky básní Listy trávy (Leaves of Grass), ktorá sa stala medzníkom v americkej literatúre. Jej prvé vydanie vyšlo v roku 1855 v počte 795 kusov a obsahovalo dvanásť básní. Počas Whitmanovho života vyšla zbierka v ôsmich vydaniach, pričom sa postupne rozšírila až na takmer štyristo básní. Prvá báseň, skladajúca sa z 1336 veršov, pôvodne nemala názov. Táto úvodná skladba dostala v druhom vydaní v roku 1856 názov Báseň Američana Walta Whitmana, vo vydaní z roku 1881 sa po prvý raz objavil názov Spev o mne (Song of Myself). Je považovaná za jednu z najvýznamnejších básní v americkej literatúre. Dĺžka nahrávky: 2 hodiny a 22 minút Túto audioknihu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia

Audiokniha Spev o mne, ktorú napísal Walt Whitman. Báseň, skladajúca sa z 1336 veršov, pôvodne nemala názov. Táto úvodná skladba dostala v druhom vydaní v roku 1856 názov Báseň Američana Walta Whitmana, vo vydaní z roku 1881 sa po prvý raz objavil názov Spev o mne (Song of Myself). Je považovaná za jednu z najvýznamnejších básní v americkej literatúre.

Druhé, revidované vydanie Spevu o mne vychádza na dvesté narodeniny Walta Whitmana. Táto úvodná báseň zo zbierky Listy trávy (1855), sa považuje za jednu z najvýznamnejších básní v americkej literatúre. Nadčasová báseň o demokracii a fantázii, o živote a smrti, o úžasnej skúsenosti človeka so svojou vlastnou existenciou v mnohých ohľadoch doteraz podnecuje našu zvedavosť. „Ide vlastne o lyrický epos (niekoľko častí je vyslovene epických), ktorý inšpiruje vitálnostou, šírkou časového a priestorového záberu, vôbec tým, čo básnik obsiahol, zachytením mnohotvárnosti americkej reality, plne zhodnocujúcim chápaním prírody, vyrovnaným vzťahom k smrti, metafyzickými otázkami, demokratickosťou, mnohosubjektovosťou subjektu, smelou optikou... Z diela možno vyvodiť závery, na čom sa zakladá veľká moderná poézia.“ (Ján Zambor) Súčasťou knihy je štúdia, poznámky prekladateľa a slovníček. Autorom štúdie je významný americký básnik Robert Hass.

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time "Nature without check with original energy". Famously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms, and containing celebrated poems such as the ebullient 'Song of Myself' - described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written - and the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Leaves of Grass is not only the finest achievement of a highly unique poet, but a founding text for American literature and modern poetry. Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819-92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time, his sprawling collection Leaves of Grass is regarded as his magnum opus.

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett. Whitman wrote about the United States and its people, its revolutionary spirit and about democracy. He wrote openly about the body and about desire in a way that completely broke with convention and which paved the way for a completely new kind of poetry. This new collection is taken from the final version, the Deathbed edition, and it includes his most famous poems such as 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric'.

Kniha Listy trávy je první český překlad původního vydání Leaves of Grass (1855) Walta Whitmana. Obsahuje i pasáže, které v pozdějších vydáních sám básník vyškrtal nebo poupravil. Vůbec poprvé si tu český čtenář může přečíst i Whitmanovu rozsáhlou předmluvu, proslulý a vlivný poetický manifest. Samotnou básnickou sumu otevírá rozsáhlá skladba ve vydání poslední ruky pojmenovaná jako Zpěv o mně (Song of Myself), nejpoetičtější, nejpropracovanější a zároveň nejaktuálnější text Listů trávy. Následuje jedenáct dalších skladeb. Silně humanistický a všeobjímající Whitmanův étos vstupuje v době narůstající xenofobie do nových souvislostí. Současný překlad amerikanisty a písňového folkloristy Ondřeje Skovajsy a spisovatelky a muzikantky Hany Lundiakové hledá adekvátní protějšek k Whitmanovu hlasu. Snaží se zachytit lahodnost svobody a rozkoš existence. Dnes už netřeba cenzurovat spermaticky uvolněné Whitmanovy zpěvy a živelný křik, je třeba je spíše zdůraznit. Jako horizont, odkud jsme vyšli a kam směřujeme.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers. In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.

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