Уолт Уитмен — книжные серии

Уолт Уитмен — великий американский поэт, певец Вселенной и Человечества, совершивший подлинную революцию в мировой поэзии. Его мощный голос «великана, отрешенного от всех мелочей нашего муравьиного быта» (К. Чуковский) потряс основы поэтического слова; эхо его голоса продолжало звучать на протяжении всего ХХ века, отражаясь во всех новых поэтических явлениях.
«Листья травы» — главная книга Уолта Уитмена, пронизанный светом Радости храм искусства, который сам автор достраивал и перестраивал на протяжении многих лет. В настоящем томе публикуются избранные, наиболее яркие и известные поэмы и стихотворения из сборника.

Сборник произведений крупнейшего американского поэта Уолта Уитмена.

When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his life, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but the 1855 original marked Whitman’s fresh and bold arrival, greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as “the beginning of a great career.” This volume specially compiled for Penguin Drop Caps will also include a range of additional popular poems including selections from “Calamus,” “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” and “Drum-Taps,” as well as Whitman’s 1855, 1856 and 1976 prefaces and “Democratic Vistas.”

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author’s expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short, early versions, this Modern Library Paperback Classics "Death-bed" edition presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form, and includes newly commissioned notes.

Ўолт Ўітмэн — адзін з найбуйнейшых амерыканскіх паэтаў, чые погляды вызначаліся высокім гуманізмам. Сусветную вядомасць здабыў пасля выхаду першага ж (і адзінага) зборніка вершаў «Лісце травы» (1855), які, зрэшты, потым неаднаразова перавыдаваўся і ўзбагачаўся новымі вершамі аўтара. Тварыў на памежку трансцэндэнталізму і рэалізму.

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass. Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets - an exuberant, passionate man who loved his…

The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass.

A deluxe edition of Whitman’s crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but as Harold Bloom reminds us, the book that matters most is the 1855 original. In celebration of the poem’s 150th anniversary, Penguin Classics proudly presents the 1855 text in its original and complete form, with a specially commissioned introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the `most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed'. A century later it is his judgement of this autobiographical vision of the vigour of the American nation that has proved the more enduring. This is the most up-to-date edition for student use, with full critical apparatus.

Всемирную славу американскому поэту Уолту Уитмену принес напечатанный им в 1855 году поэтический сборник "Листья травы". На протяжении всей своей последующей жизни Уитмен дополнял и совершенствовал этот сборник. Лирико-философская в своей основе, поэзия Уитмена обогащалась все новыми темами. Но главной всегда оставалась тема красоты жизни и величия человека.…