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Better Angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195124820
ISBN-139780195124828
eBay Product ID (ePID)1641861
Product Key Features
Book TitleBetter Angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, Literary, Poetry
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorRoy Morris
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
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LCCN99-086210
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Reviews"This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves us to remind uspowerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, ofthe genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing with them, and of theremarkable skill of one of America's most accomplished biographers inresearching and telling so poignant a story."--Simon Winchester, author of TheProfessor and The Madman, "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves us to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing with them, and of the remarkable skill of one of America's most accomplished biographers in researching and telling so poignant a story."--Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and The Madman "The Better Angel illuminates Walt Whitman's Civil War years with frankness and compassion. Its insights and compelling narrative afford us new and humanly rich understandings of the poet and his vision of America."-- Robert H. Abzug, author of Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps "Roy Morris, Jr.'s elegant and moving book shows how the great civil war that redeemed the nation's soul also reawakened the soul of the nation's greatest poet, Walt Whitman. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about American culture."--Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author of Chants Democratic and The Kingdom of Matthias, "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves us to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing with them, and of the remarkable skill of one of America's most accomplished biographers in researching and telling so poignant a story."--Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and The Madman " The Better Angel illuminates Walt Whitman's Civil War years with frankness and compassion. Its insights and compelling narrative afford us new and humanly rich understandings of the poet and his vision of America."-- Robert H. Abzug, author of Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps "Roy Morris, Jr.'s elegant and moving book shows how the great civil war that redeemed the nation's soul also reawakened the soul of the nation's greatest poet, Walt Whitman. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about American culture."--Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author of Chants Democratic and The Kingdom of Matthias, "This pathbreaking study of Whitman's Civil War years reveals more facts--and a greater understanding--of the man than the vain, foppish poet-nurse that too many writers have sought to create."-- James I. Robertson, Jr., author of Stonewall Jackson, "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves us to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing with them, and of the remarkable skill of one of America's most accomplished biographers in researching and telling so poignant a story."--Simon Winchester, author ofThe Professor and The Madman "The Better Angelilluminates Walt Whitman's Civil War years with frankness and compassion. Its insights and compelling narrative afford us new and humanly rich understandings of the poet and his vision of America."-- Robert H. Abzug, author ofCosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the ReligiousImaginationandInside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps "Roy Morris, Jr.'s elegant and moving book shows how the great civil war that redeemed the nation's soul also reawakened the soul of the nation's greatest poet, Walt Whitman. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about American culture."--Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author ofChants DemocraticandThe Kingdom of Matthias, "The Better Angel illuminates Walt Whitman's Civil War years with frankness and compassion. Its insights and compelling narrative afford us new and humanly rich understandings of the poet and his vision of America."-- Robert H. Abzug, author of Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and theReligious Imagination and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, "This pathbreaking study of Whitman's Civil War years reveals morefacts--and a greater understanding--of the man than the vain, foppish poet-nursethat too many writers have sought to create."-- James I. Robertson, Jr., authorof Stonewall Jackson, "Roy Morris, Jr.'s elegant and moving book shows how the great civil war that redeemed the nation's soul also reawakened the soul of the nation's greatest poet, Walt Whitman. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about American culture." -- Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, authorof Chants Democratic and The Kingdom of Matthias, "Roy Morris, Jr.'s elegant and moving book shows how the great civil warthat redeemed the nation's soul also reawakened the soul of the nation'sgreatest poet, Walt Whitman. It is essential reading for everyone who caresabout American culture." -- Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author of ChantsDemocratic and The Kingdom of Matthias, "Working from the perspective of the soliders he nursed in Washington's unsanitary, fever-ridden hospitals, Walt Whitman articulated the grim reality of the Civil War as no other witness could. In The Better Angel, Roy Morris, Jr. does a remarkably fine job of resurrecting the Civil WarWhitman--putting flesh on the brilliant but tormented social and sexual outsider who composed Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War." -- Edward J. Renehan, Jr., author of The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War and The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspiredwith John Brown, "Working from the perspective of the soliders he nursed in Washington'sunsanitary, fever-ridden hospitals, Walt Whitman articulated the grim reality ofthe Civil War as no other witness could. In The Better Angel, Roy Morris, Jr.does a remarkably fine job of resurrecting the Civil War Whitman--putting fleshon the brilliant but tormented social and sexual outsider who composed Drum-Tapsand Memoranda During the War." -- Edward J. Renehan, Jr., author of The Lion'sPride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War and The Secret Six:The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown, "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves us to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing with them, and of the remarkable skill of one of America's most accomplished biographers in researching and telling so poignant a story."--Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and The Madman"The Better Angel illuminates Walt Whitman's Civil War years with frankness and compassion. Its insights and compelling narrative afford us new and humanly rich understandings of the poet and his vision of America."-- Robert H. Abzug, author of Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps"Roy Morris, Jr.'s elegant and moving book shows how the great civil war that redeemed the nation's soul also reawakened the soul of the nation's greatest poet, Walt Whitman. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about American culture."--Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author of Chants Democratic and The Kingdom of Matthias, "Working from the perspective of the soliders he nursed in Washingon'sunsanitary, fever-ridden hospitals, Walt Whitman articulated the grim reality ofthe Civil War as no other witness could. In THE BETTER ANGEL, Roy Morris, Jr.does a remarkably fine job of resurrecting the Civil War Whitman--putting fleshon the brilliant but tormented social and sexual outsider who composed Drum-Tapsand Memoranda During the War."----Edward J. Renehan, Jr., author of The Lion'sPride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War and The Secret Six:The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown, "Working from the perspective of the soliders he nursed in Washingon's unsanitary, fever-ridden hospitals, Walt Whitman articulated the grim reality of the Civil War as no other witness could. In THE BETTER ANGEL, Roy Morris, Jr. does a remarkably fine job of resurrecting the Civil WarWhitman--putting flesh on the brilliant but tormented social and sexual outsider who composed Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War."----Edward J. Renehan, Jr., author of The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War and The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspiredwith John Brown, "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves us to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing with them, and of the remarkable skill of one of America's most accomplishedbiographers in researching and telling so poignant a story."--Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and The Madman, "The Better Angel illuminates Walt Whitman's Civil War years withfrankness and compassion. Its insights and compelling narrative afford us newand humanly rich understandings of the poet and his vision of America."-- RobertH. Abzug, author of Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the ReligiousImagination and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of NaziConcentration Camps
SynopsisThe first full account of Whitman's Civil War years sheds new light on the man, his poetry, and the treatment of the war's sick and wounded., On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see--the noble young men with legs and arms taken off--the deaths--the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly three years, Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experience with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel , acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest accounting of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War Years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, wasting his nights in New York's seedy bohemian underground, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Though his brother's injury was slight, Whitman was deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties. He began visiting the camp's wounded and, almost by accident, found his calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's "most unlikely hero," a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood. Instead of returning to Brooklyn as planned, Whitman continued to visit the wounded soldiers in the hospitals in and around the capital. He brought them ice cream, tobacco, brandy, books, magazines, pens and paper, wrote letters for those who were not able and offered to all the enormous healing influence of his sympathy and affection. Indeed, several soldiers claimed that Whitman had saved their lives. One noted that Whitman "seemed to have what everybody wanted" and added "When this old heathen came and gave me a pipe and tobacco, it was about the most joyful moment of my life." Another wrote that "There is many a soldier that never thinks of you but with emotions of the greatest gratitude." But if Whitman gave much to the soldiers, they in turn gave much to him. In witnessing their stoic suffering, in listening to their understated speech, and in being always in the presence of death, Whitman evolved the new and more direct poetic style that was to culminate in his masterpiece, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Better Angel explores a side of Whitman not fully examined before, one that greatly enriches our understanding of his later poetry. More than that, it gives us a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the "other army"--the legions of sick and wounded soldiers who are usually left in the shadowy background of Civil War history--seen here through the unflinching eyes of America's greatest poet., On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see--the noble young men with legs and arms taken off--the deaths--the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly three years, Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experience with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest accounting of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War Years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, wasting his nights in New York's seedy bohemian underground, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Though his brother's injury was slight, Whitman was deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties. He began visiting the camp's wounded and, almost by accident, found his calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's "most unlikely hero," a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood. Instead of returning to Brooklyn as planned, Whitman continued to visit the wounded soldiers in the hospitals in and around the capital. He brought them ice cream, tobacco, brandy, books, magazines, pens and paper, wrote letters for those who were not able and offered to all the enormous healing influence of his sympathy and affection. Indeed, several soldiers claimed that Whitman had saved their lives. One noted that Whitman "seemed to have what everybody wanted" and added "When this old heathen came and gave me a pipe and tobacco, it was about the most joyful moment of my life." Another wrote that "There is many a soldier that never thinks of you but with emotions of the greatest gratitude." But if Whitman gave much to the soldiers, they in turn gave much to him. In witnessing their stoic suffering, in listening to their understated speech, and in being always in the presence of death, Whitman evolved the new and more direct poetic style that was to culminate in his masterpiece, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Better Angel explores a side of Whitman not fully examined before, one that greatly enriches our understanding of his later poetry. More than that, it gives us a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the "other army"--the legions of sick and wounded soldiers who are usually left in the shadowy background of Civil War history--seen here through the unflinching eyes of America's greatest poet.
LC Classification NumberPS3232.M67 2000
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THE Book about Whitman's Civil War Hospital Experience
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