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Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman Paperback – April 1, 2008
Sit back and travel the universe through the imagination of Walt Whitman. From the depths of the sea to the far reaches of the cosmos, from the songs of America’s workers to the plight of America’s slaves, you’re about to embark on an experience you’ll never forget! More than twenty-five of Walt Whitman’s most popular poems, including “O Captain! My Captain!,” “I Hear America Singing,” and many selections from Leaves of Grass, have been gathered and stunningly illustrated in this wonderful collection.
- Reading age8 years and up
- Print length48 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level3 - 6
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.25 x 10 inches
- PublisherUnion Square Kids
- Publication dateApril 1, 2008
- ISBN-101402754779
- ISBN-13978-1402754777
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About the Author
Jonathan Levin is Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Literature and Culture at Purchase College, SUNY. He lives in the Riverdale, New York with his wife Erica, daughter Toby, and their twenty-one-year-old, Whitman-loving cat Rosa.
Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman was Jim Burke’s first illustrated picture book, created in 1996. He has since illustrated a number of lauded children’s books, including Take Me Out to the Ball Game which he created to coincide with Jack Norworth’s 1908 lyrics. Jim has won numerous accolades for his paintings, including a Gold Medal from the prestigious Society of Illustrators in New York City. Jim, his wife, and their young daughter live in Brooklyn, New York.
Product details
- Publisher : Union Square Kids; Reprint edition (April 1, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 48 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1402754779
- ISBN-13 : 978-1402754777
- Reading age : 8 years and up
- Grade level : 3 - 6
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.25 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #750,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,096 in Children's Poetry (Books)
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About the author
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, near Huntington, Long Island, New York. On July 4, 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the volume of poems that for the next four decades would become his lifes work, was placed on sale. Although some critics treated the volume as a joke and others were outraged by its unprecedented mixture of mysticism and earthiness, the book attracted the attention of some of the finest literary intelligences. His poetry slowly achieved a wide readership in America and in England, where he was praised by Swinburne and Tennyson. (D. H. Lawrence later referred to Whitman as the"greatest modern poet, and"the greatest of Americans. Whitman suffered a stroke in 1873 and was forced to retire to Camden, New Jersey, where he would spend the last twenty years of his life. There he continued to write poetry, and in 1881 the seventh edition of Leaves of Grass was published to generally favorable reviews. However, the book was soon banned in Boston on the grounds that it was obscene literature. In January 1892 the final edition of Leaves of Grass appeared on sale, and Whitman's life work was complete. He died two months later on the evening of March 26, 1892, and was buried four days afterward at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden.
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I bought the book by William Blake and that one is excellent! But of the Whitman poems, they are a very tough read, and only 1 poem in here rhymes.
That one poem is Oh Captain My Captain, and that is a great poem! The rest though, is tough reading. Here's some lines from a Whitman train poem:
'Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,'
The book itself is a very nice product, with good pictures and details of his life, and short descriptions of the poems.
I want may son to memorize a few poems, and 'Oh Captain My Captain' fits the bill perfectly. However you can get all these poems off the internet, and I personally didn't enjoy any other of Whitman's poems (I Hear America Singing is ok). I'm looking more for poems like the Snowy Woods poem by Frost or 'Casey at the Bat', 'The Tyger',etc, that 9 year olds can really get into.
If this book was entitled 'A Beginners Guide to Whitman', that would be more accurate and I wouldn't have been so dissapointed. But if you want something for younger kids, get the excellent William Blake, and maybe try one of the many other books in the series.