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2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Overview: The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero. Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers-Union & Confederate, black & white. By getting to know them through...
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Exploring the full range of writings by and about Whitman - not just his most famous work but also his earliest poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks - Reynolds gives us a full, rounded picture of the man, of his creative blending of disparate ideas and images, and his contradictory stances on race, class, and gender. Whitman's uniqueness is shown to spring primarily from his closeness to and absorption...
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"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of...
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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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This beautifully illustrated children's book explores how Walt Whitman was affected by the Civil War and inspired by President Lincoln.
O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America's greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America's greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln's carriage on the road. The...
12) Walt Whitman
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Twayne's United States authors volume 20
Pub. Date
[1962]
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"Walt Whitman provies a critical introduction to America's nineteenth-century epic poet. It orders the facts essential to understanding Whitman's poetry, and indicates paths to wander down on tours of personal exploration. More than merely a review of all that has been said of Whitman before, the book represents a fresh and comprehensive look at the poet and his work."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
14) Walt Whitman
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of his poems.
15) Walt Whitman
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Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Biography of Walt Whitman whose poetry in Leaves of grass reflected the great changes that took place in 19th century America.
17) Walt Whitman
Pub. Date
c2008
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One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit...
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Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge.