Walt Whitman And His Caribbean Interlocutors: Jose Marti, C.l.r. James, And Pedro Mir Av Rafael Bernabe

<div><p><strong>With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.</strong></p></div><div><p>Walt Whitman''s verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national...

Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from 'America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with...

The major male poet of nineteenth-century America (his female counterpart is Emily Dickinson), Whitman is the poet of grand passions great open spaces, lofty mourning and male love. Written in free metres, his verse ranges across every kind of subject...