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I Hear America SingingPoems of Democracy, Manhattan and the FutureWalter Whitman
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (96 pages) (Pub. Dec 2001) 9780856463402 Out of Stock
I Hear America Singing I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Walt Whitman (1819–92) is the authentic voice of democratic America. After a childhood in Brooklyn, he spent many years in and around Manhattan and Washington, where he witnessed troops returning from the Civil War and tended wounded soldiers in the camp hospitals. |
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