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Elliott Gould, Burt Reynolds, Meryl Streep, and a host of other celebrities read over 100 poems by four of America's greatest poets. Walt Whitman celebrates the brash and rugged individualism of his country in exuberant language. The spare, precise language of Emily Dickinson conveys her penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths.

Walt Whitman’s work influenced many later poetic voices, and no work more so than this epic American poem, 'Leaves of Grass', which he spent his entire life writing and constantly revising until his death. The work heralded a new dynamic relationship in poetry, with its candid and sensual interpretation of his observations and thoughts on the human spirit and all aspects of existence at a time when poetic tradition employed symbolism or allegory.

Walt Whitman’s work influenced many later poetic voices, and no work more so than this epic American poem, 'Leaves of Grass', which he spent his entire life writing and constantly revising until his death. The work heralded a new dynamic relationship in poetry, with its candid and sensual interpretation of his observations and thoughts on the human spirit and all aspects of existence at a time when poetic tradition employed symbolism or allegory.

Walt Whitmans Gedichtzyklus gehört zu den berühmtesten Werken der amerikanischen Lyrik. "O Kapitän, mein Kapitän!" - wer kennt nicht diese Worte, gemünzt auf den verstorbenen Abraham Lincoln? Die "Grashalme" sind ein gewaltiges Werk, ein Gesang auf Natur, Liebe und Amerika.

A collection of classic erotic poetry including "The Kiss", "A Woman Waits for Me", and "Between Your Sheets".

July - the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman, and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight.

Considered to be a valuable testimony to the suffering of the American Civil War, in this collection of poetry, American Poet Walt Whitman drew from his experiences in the field hospitals.

Perhaps the first great and truly "American" poet, Walt Whitman's writing reflected the idealism and turbulence of the mid-19th century. His poetry broke new stylistic ground with its unconventional meter and rhyme schemes, yet celebrated democratic values, the beauty of nature, and the complex variety and vitality of American life.

A man, tiring of an astronomy lecture, takes a walk in the mystical night air to renew his sense of purpose.

In the preface to Leaves of Grass, Whitman states, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem". The themes of equality for all people, fertility, sacredness of self, beauty in death, love of comrades, and the immortality of the soul prevail.

Von den Fesseln der Form befreit lässt Walt Whitman seinen Gedanken freien Lauf. Seltsamer und interessanter Weise trifft er dabei öfters ins Schwarze als man es womöglich für möglich halten könnte. Sein leidenschaftliches prosaisches Lyrik-Monument ist von feinstem Geist durchdrungen und ein Plädoyer für Gleichberechtigung, Menschlichkeit und Demokratie! Der legendären Grashalme zweiter Teil.

Von den Fesseln der Form befreit lässt Walt Whitman seinen Gedanken freien Lauf. Seltsamer und interessanter Weise trifft er dabei öfters ins Schwarze als man es womöglich für möglich halten könnte. Sein leidenschaftliches prosaisches Lyrik-Monument ist von feinstem Geist durchdrungen und ein Plädoyer für Gleichberechtigung, Menschlichkeit und Demokratie! Der legendären Grashalme erster Teil.

Selections from Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, George Pickett, Lt. Colonel W.W. Blackford, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Sarah Morgan Dawson, George T. Stevens, John McElroy, William T. Sherman, Adeline Grey; William Manchester, Paul Fussell, Cornelius Ryan, James J. Fahey, A.J. Liebling, Janet Flanner, David Kenyon Webster, Lewis H. Carlson.

Walt Whitman's celebrated poetry collection, read by Ed Begley.

In 1852, young Walt Whitman—a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn—was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published...

This collection, narrated by distinguished Broadway actor Brian Murray, includes nine poems from Leaves of Grass - among them "I Hear America Singing", "O Captain! My Captain", and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d", plus four other selections.