![]() Urn:oclc:record:137716205 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4117 Identifier memorandaduringw0000whit Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t66498w8x Invoice 1853 Isbn 9780195347128ĩ780195307184 Lccn 2003022933 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.3 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19578 Openlibrary_edition Digital Library Federation, December 2002Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:09:29 Associated-names Coviello, Peter Boxid IA1983310 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Letter to the parents of Erastus HaskellĮlectronic reproduction. Vigil strange I kept on the field one night Whoever you are holding me now in hand When I heard at the close of the day Are you the new person drawn toward me? City of orgies To a stranger - Appendix 3. Whitman at war / - Memoranda during the war - Notes / - Editor's notes - Appendix 1. Includes bibliographical references (pages lii-liv) and index Edited and introduced by Peter Coviello, Memoranda During the War is a powerful portrait of a nation at war written by one of our greatest poets The book also includes Whitman's famous speech "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," selected poems, and a letter to the parents of a deceased soldier. And throughout, we find Whitman laboring with heroic determination to sustain and nourish his once-ardent faith in America and American life, even as the nation unleashed unprecedented violence upon itself. The book offers an astounding amalgam of death portraits, anecdotes of battle, last words, messages to distant loved ones, and remarkably restrained and muted descriptions of pain, dismemberment, and dying-all of it, however grim, suffused with Whitman's undiminished enthusiasm and affection for these young soldiers. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though peculiarly intimate public exchanges with President Lincoln, a man Whitman saw often on the streets of Washington and by whom he was deeply fascinated. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war's conclusion in 1865. Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation. In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering.
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