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The better angel :

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0195124820

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019514709X

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9780195124828

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9780195147094

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b798255

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The better angel :

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[Book]

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Walt Whitman in the Civil War /

First Statement of Responsibility

Roy Morris, Jr.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2000.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 270 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.

Text of Note

The Medicine of Daily Affection -- New York Stagnation -- A Sight in Camp -- The Great Army of the Sick -- The Real Precious & Royal Ones of This Land -- The Melancholy Tide -- Retrievements Out of the Night -- Lose Not My Sons.

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"Of the Civil War's many stories of heroism, few are so unlikely, or so moving, as that of Walt Whitman. For nearly three years, Whitman tended to legions of sick and wounded soldiers, immersing himself in the devastation of the war and recording his experience with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest account yet published of Whitman's Civil War years, which transformed him both as a poet and as a person. As the war began, Whitman was mired in depression, subsisting on journalistic hackwork and wasting his nights in New York's seedy bohemian underground. But when the news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Though his brother's injury was slight, the poet was deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties. He began visiting the camp's wounded and, almost by accident, found his calling for the duration of the 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.'"--Jacket.

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Et la guerre.

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt.

Poets, American-- 19th century, Biography.

Literature, Modern.

Poetry as Topic.

Warfare.

Poètes américains-- 19e siècle-- Biographies.

American poets, Biography.

Literatura norte-americana (crítica e interpretação)

Literature.

Poets, American.

Sezessionskrieg

War work.

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, War work.

United States.

États-Unis, Histoire, 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession), Participation des civils.

United States, History, 1861-1865, Civil War.

United States.

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Morris, Roy,Jr.

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20201207105215.0

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