Alone on the Beach at Night (Little Black Classics #10)
by:
Walt Whitman (author)
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around...
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'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victo
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141398228 (0141398221)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
This one wasn't for me. I had of course heard of the author, but had never read anything by him. Based on this collection, a selection from Leaves of Grass, I don't think I will either. With the Little Black Classics you never know up front what to expect, there have been some very nice surprises so...
Not the Whitman poems I would chose, especially considering part of the purpose of these books is to give people a taste of a writer.
Walt Whitman's poetry from 19th century America is unlike any other Victorian poetry I have read. I assume it is because he is American, but I saw no lyrical prowess, and my heart was not set aflame by any words. I am fairly new to loving poetry, but these poems, or lyrical sentences as I feel they ...
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