Democratic Vistas and Other Papers

Democratic Vistas and Other Papers

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic discussion of the theory of democracy and its possibilities. In this essay he protests the unrestrained materialism, greed, corruption and spiritual failure of what, two years later, Mark Twain would label "The Gilded Age." Whitman criticizes America for its "mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry" that mask an underlying "dry and flat Sahara" of soul. He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population: "Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does."

Whitman was one of the few writers to keep the Emersonian faith in individual and cultural regeneration after the Civil War.

Democratic Vistas and Other Papers,Walt Whitman,Fredonia Books (NL),1410100669,Essays,Literary Collections,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Political Ideologies - Democracy,Political structures: democracy

Books Info:

1. Demosthenis Orationes : Tomus I (Oxford Classical Texts)
2. Diary of Andres Fava
3. Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources : Fascicule 4: F-G-H (Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources)
4. Early African-American Classics (Bantam Classics)
5. Eastern Religions : Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Buddism, Taoism
6. Elias Portolu (European Classics)
7. Emerson : ,
8. Emilio's Carnival
9. Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961
10. Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing

Books Info

Recommended Books

1. Daughter of Art History: Photographs by Yasumasa Morimura
2. The Best of Wedding Photojournalism: Techniques and Images from the Pros
3. The Wacky World of Womanhood: Essays on Girlhood, Dating, Motherhood, and the Loss of Matching Under
4. Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain : The Science of Neuroeconomics
5. Internal Auditors As Consultants
6. The Mechanics and Physics of Modern Grain Aeration Management
7. The Sensory Circumventricular Organs of the Mammalian Brain : Subfornical Organ, OVLT and Area Postr
8. The Geometry of Total Curvature on Complete Open Surfaces
9. Virgin's Triangle
10. We Can Build You
11. True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story
12. The World's Most Beautiful Orchids
13. Walking Taylor Home
14. Understanding the Constitution
15. The Wildlife Man