Days With Walt Whitman: With Some Notes On His Life And Work

by Edward Carpenter

Overview

Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929) was an English philosopher, poet, anthologist, and pioneer of gay rights. He had many famous friends including Mahatma Gandhi, the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, and Walt Whitman. It is with his relationship with Whitman that this particular volume concerns itself, offering the reader an account of Carpenter's personal experiences with Whitman as well as insightful information on his life and work. Walter Whitman (1819 - 1892) was an American essayist, poet, and journalist who was pivotal to the transition from transcendentalism to realism. His work was notably divisive and claimed by many to be obscene when first published, but he is now considered to be one of the most influential people in the American poetic canon and the "father of free verse". Contents include: "A Visit to Walt Whitman in 1877", "Walt Whitman in 1884", "Notes and Appreciations", "Whitman as a Prophet", "The Poetic Form of 'Leaves of Grass", "Walt Whitman's Children", "Whitman and Emerson", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409711919
Publisher:	Martindell Press
Publication date:	05/18/2008
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.46(d)

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APPENDIX TO WHITMAN AS PROPHET (Seepage 77) Passages from early prophetic writings1:— " He, the Highest Person, who is awake in us while we are asleep, shaping one lovely sight after another; that indeed is the Bright, that is Brahman, that alone is called the Immortal." —Katha Upanishad. " He is the one God, hidden in all beings, all 1 Compare the following from " Leaves of Grass ":— " O Thou transcendent, Nameless, the fibre and the breath, Light of the light, shedding forth universes . . . Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God, At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death, But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me, And lo ! thou gently masterest the orbs, Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death, And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space." (p. 321-) pervading, the Self within all beings, watching over all works, dwelling in all beings, the witness, the Perceiver, the only one, free from qualities."—Svetasvatara Upanishad. "The sun does not shine [show] there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less this fire. When he shines, everything shines after him; by his light all this [world] is lightened."—Svetasvatara Upanishad. " As rain water that has fallen on a mountain ridge runs down on all sides, thus does he who sees a difference between qualities run after them on all sides. " Light rare untellable, lighting the very light, Beyond all signs, descriptions, languages." (p. 324.) " Whoever you are ! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid; You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky." (p. 178.) " I celebrate Myself, And what I assume, you shall also assume,"(p. 29.) " Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands am...