Walt Whitman /
David S. Reynolds
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005
- 159 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
- Lives and legacies .
Life -- Popular culture, city life, and politics -- Theater, oratory, and music -- The visual arts -- Science, philosophy, and religion -- Sex, gender, and comradeship -- The Civil War, Lincoln, and Reconstruction
Walt Whitman is one of the first volumes in the Lives and Legacies series on notable figures inspired by the Very Short Introductions series. Award winning author, David Reynolds, offers a book that comcisely places this influencial American poet in his historical contexts.