Name: Hojas de Hierba (in Spanish)
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Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9789505630059

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Colihue

Collection

colihueclásica

Year

2004

Language

Spanish

Pages

754

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9505630050

ISBN13

9789505630059

Edited in

Argentina

Synopsis "Hojas de Hierba (in Spanish)"

Whitman instaura en la poesía un momento fundacional y renovador, que luego se consolidará tradición, más allá de las fronteras de su país. No han podido sustraerse a su influencia autores tan diversos como Allen Ginsberg, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot o Wallace Stevens, para mencionar solo a los más importantes en lengua inglesa.Walt Whitrnan publicó, en 1855, la primera edición de Hojas de hierba, obra que sumará, durante la vida del poeta, un total de nueve ediciones. En cada una Whitman agregaba nuevos poemas, corregía los anteriores, suprimía líneas, o estrofas completas. La novena, denominada 'the deathbed edition' (del lecho de muerte), de 1892, es considerada la definitiva, y fue recomendada por el mismo Whitman que la prefería a todas las demás. Esta edición es la que hoy presentamos en la insuperable traducción de Francisco Alexander, única completa en español y elogiada, entre otros por Borges. El estudio preliminar de Rolando Costa Picazo, reconocido especialista en literatura estadounidense, inglesa y comparada, ofrece una amplia contextualización de Hojas de hierba y una pormenorizada introducción a los aspectos más importantes de la obra de Whitman.'

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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