Walt Whitman: Grashalme: Ein Meisterwerk der Poesie

Geschrieben von Walt Whitman und Jürgen Fritsche

Erzählt von Jürgen Fritsche

Walt Whitmans Gedichtzyklus gehört zu den berühmtesten Werken der amerikanischen Lyrik. "O Käptn, mein Käptn!" - wer kennt nicht diese Worte, gemünzt auf den verstorbenen Abraham Lincoln? Die "Grashalme" sind ein gewaltiges Werk, ein Gesang auf Natur, Liebe und Amerika.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BÄNG Management & Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 5. Apr. 2019
• ISBN: 9783955975616

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American writer famously known for his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. In addition to his poetry, Whitman was also a prominent essayist, journalist, and humanist with works centering mainly around the topics of transcendentalism and realism. Born in New York in 1819, Whitman worked at a printing press where he then transitioned to a full-time journalist. During his time in journalism, Whitman developed many important beliefs, many of them formed after having witnessed the auctioning of enslaved individuals. Over the course of his career, Whitman remained very politically aware, disavowing the bloody nature of the Civil War and dedicating resources to help the wounded in various hospitals in New York City. Whitman spent his declining years working on revisions for Leaves of Grass, which was largely thereafter referred to as his “Deathbed Edition.”