Memoranda During the War (eBook)

Walt Whitman (Autor)

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2012
112 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-14081-0 (ISBN)

Infos

While serving as a volunteer at military hospitals, the poet recorded soldiers' anecdotes of army life, their last words and final messages, and his own reflections on the Civil War.

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These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in a newspaper list of Union Army casualties. The poet hurried from his Brooklyn home to a Virginia battlefront, where he found his brother, wounded but recovering. Profoundly moved by his experiences in the army hospital, Whitman settled in Washington, D.C., for the rest of the war. There he served as a military hospital volunteer, offering medical and spiritual comfort to sick and dying soldiers. His journal entries express in simple, heartfelt terms his Civil War experiences. First published in book form in 1875, Whitman's Memoranda recounts soldiers' anecdotes of recent battles and army life as well as their last words and final messages to faraway friends and family. Whitman recorded his impressions of Abraham Lincoln, whom he frequently encountered on the city streets, and his thoughts on the conflict's day-to-day and historical significance. His evocative, poetic reflections offer a unique portrait of Civil War life.

Autor

One of America's most influential and innovative poets, Walt Whitman (1819-92) worked as a teacher, journalist, and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. Proclaimed as the nation's first "poet of democracy," Whitman reached out to common readers and opposed censorship with his overt celebrations of sexuality.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War
• Einführung: Bob Blaisdell
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 132 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th century poets • Abraham Lincoln • Americana • american armies • American Heroes • American Literature • American wars • Army Life • Biography • Civil War • Civil War journals • civil war nursing narratives • civil war stories • Diaries • glimpses of war • Hospital • Journal • Medical • Memoir • military hospital • Nonfiction • personal narratives • soldiers last words • tales from the battlefields • us history • War Between the States • war of secession • Washington DC • Whitman
• ISBN-10: 0-486-14081-4 / 0486140814
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-14081-0 / 9780486140810