Leaves of Grass
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199539000
- ISBN10 0199539006
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 478
- Col.lecció Oxford World's Classics #
- Any Edició 2009
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Rústica
Leaves of Grass
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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.