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1) Walt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
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Exploring the full range of writings by and about Whitman - not just his most famous work but also his earliest poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks - Reynolds gives us a full, rounded picture of the man, of his creative blending of disparate ideas and images, and his contradictory stances on race, class, and gender. Whitman's uniqueness is shown to spring primarily from his closeness to and absorption...
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"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of...
9) Walt Whitman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Biography of Walt Whitman whose poetry in Leaves of grass reflected the great changes that took place in 19th century America.
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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This beautifully illustrated children's book explores how Walt Whitman was affected by the Civil War and inspired by President Lincoln.
O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America's greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America's greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln's carriage on the road. The...
13) Walt Whitman
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Twayne's United States authors volume 20
Pub. Date
[1962]
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"Walt Whitman provies a critical introduction to America's nineteenth-century epic poet. It orders the facts essential to understanding Whitman's poetry, and indicates paths to wander down on tours of personal exploration. More than merely a review of all that has been said of Whitman before, the book represents a fresh and comprehensive look at the poet and his work."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
15) Walt Whitman
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of his poems.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided...
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Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge.