The better angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War /

On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see - the noble young men with legs and arms taken off - the deaths - the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations ... just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morris, Roy, Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Views on war.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Et la guerre.
Whitman, Walt > 1819-1892
Whitman, Walt.
1800-1899
Poets, American > 19th century > Biography.
Poetry.
Poetry as Topic
Literature, Modern
Warfare
Poètes américains > 19e siècle > Biographies.
Poésie.
poetry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
War.
Poets, American.
War work.
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Literatura norte-americana (critica e interpretacʹao)
American poets > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > War work.
United States
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Participation des civils.
United States.
United States > History > 1861-1865, Civil War.
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the medicine of daily affection
  • New York stagnation
  • A sight in camp
  • The great army of the sick
  • The real precious & royal ones of this land
  • The melancholy tide
  • Retrievements out of the night
  • Epilogue : lose not my sons.

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