All about Walt Whitman

A word on Paul Zweig’s article:

“Since we have already dealt with Bloom’s article above, we can present now the last article in this volume, Paul Zweig’s “The Wound-Dresser” (1985, pp143-57). Zweig is also the author of a critical biography of Whitman, the famous The Making of the Poet (1984). In the article he gives a detailed description of Whitman’s life and work during the American civil war, his worries about his brother George, who fought in the war, and the writing of Drum-Taps, the book that contains the poet’s realistic and precise description of what he saw in and around Washington during the war, mainly when he was working as a wound-dresser in the improvised and impoverished military hospitals. It is amazing to know that Whitman helped relieve the pain of more than eighty thousand soldiers, northerners and southerners alike.”

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