{"title":"Walt Whitman","description":"\u003cp\u003eWALT WHITMAN was an American poet, essayist, and journalist who worked across nine editions of his landmark collection Leaves of Grass, first published at his own expense in 1855. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDrum-Taps\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitman held positions as a printer, teacher, journalist, and government clerk before devoting himself to poetry. He is widely regarded as the father of free verse in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil War, Whitman served as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. That experience directly shaped \u003cem\u003eDrum-Taps\u003c\/em\u003e and his elegies on Abraham Lincoln, including O Captain! My Captain!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, and spent his final years in Camden, New Jersey, where he died on March 26, 1892.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"whitman","title":"Whitman: The Mystic Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover How Whitman's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whitman's collected poems and prose are not an object or icon to be gazed upon or revered but a transparency we look through to see ourselves with greater clarity, excitement, and meaning. They wake us up to our potential, to learning about and from ourselves. To experience his writing is to experience ourselves more deeply.\"--from the Preface by \u003cb\u003eGary David Comstock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman was the most innovative and influential poet of the nineteenth century. The self-proclaimed American Bard, Whitman challenged his contemporaries to resist conforming to society and shocked them with his embrace of the sensual. But beneath his manifesto for social revolution lies a vigorous call for spiritual revolution as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful sampling of Whitman's most important poetry from \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, and selections from his prose writings, offers a glimpse into the spiritual side of his most radical themes--love for country, love for others, and love of Self. \u003cem\u003eWhitman \u003c\/em\u003eseeks to tear down the belief that the spiritual resides only in the religious and embraces the idea that nothing is more divine than humankind, nothing greater than the individual soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich with passion, reverence, and wonder, this unique collection offers insight into Whitman's quest for self-discovery, which involved an ongoing mystical experience of the world. Though seemingly personal, his verse speaks to universal harmony and universal love, optimism and joy, and celebrates the outwardly mundane details of life through words electrified with love and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1683364945\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781683364948\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Walt Whitman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43238196740312,"sku":"9781594730412","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43238196773080,"sku":"9781683364948","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781594730412_FC_mockup_v2_1738754965_d8baba5f-d434-45f9-8217-dfc90e69653e.jpg?v=1791033299"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-walt-whitman.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}