Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman's poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Wagner-Martin's study also emphasizes the…
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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman's poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Wagner-Martin's study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman experienced. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman's poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life.
In addition to establishing Whitman's attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of following Whitman's life through his poems. Starting with his early career as a printer and journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass, and his cultivation of the persona of the "working-class" writer. Utilizing contemporary perspectives on class, Wagner-Martin provides a new reading of Whitman's economic