From Noon to Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman

by Philip Callow

Book Overview

In From Noon to Starry Night, published on the 100th anniversary of Walt Whitman's death, the great poet of democracy has at last found his biographer. Philip Callow brings to Whitman's extraordinary life the skills and sensitivities of novelist, poet, and biographer. Here is the life of America's poet--beguiling, surprising, in some ways magical--a wonderfully detailed portrait, lyrically told. More successfully than any earlier biography, Callow's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566631335
• ISBN13: 9781566631334
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Very Good Book

This is a very well writen book that both informs and entertains. I am a Walt Whitman fan so it was naturaly intersting to me, but even a non-fan would love this insitful work. I say it is a must have for all serious Whitman fans.