Format:
190 S.
,
Ill., Kt., 1 Portr. (des Verf.)
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
978-1-62619-973-6
,
1-62619-973-6
Content:
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Whitman eventually served as a volunteer "hospital missionary," making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years. With the 1865 publication of Drum-Taps, Whitman became poet laureate of the Civil War, aligning his legacy with that of Abraham Lincoln. He remained in Washington until 1873 as a federal clerk, engaging in a dazzling literary circle and fostering his longest romantic relationship, with Peter Doyle. Author Garrett Peck details the definitive account of Walt Whitman's decade in the nation's capital
Note:
Includes bibliographical references ([181]-185 and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
;
Sezessionskrieg
;
Geschichte
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