Tag Archives: Walt Whitman
All About Walt Whitman: Poetic Seeds In The Kosmos
I have created this page to share my thoughts and writings on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. I have been studying and translating Whitman’s works into Portuguese for more than 20 years now. So, everything I have written about the … Continue reading
My PhD Dissertation
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL INSTITUTO DE LETRAS PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM LETRAS LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA INGLESA Doutorando: Gentil Saraiva Junior
Ph.D.
Dear readers, my resumé page shows that I have been doing a doctorate in poetic translation since 2005. The good news is that I have finished it, and got my Ph.D. I have got an A with honors!
REVISIONS, PERCEPTION, MOVEMENT, CHANGE
REVISIONS, PERCEPTION, MOVEMENT, CHANGE — — There has been much controversy (see Roy Harvey Pearce, “Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1860″, in Modern Critical Views, 1985) about the changes made by Whitman in Leaves of Grass during his life. His … Continue reading
WHITMAN AND THE DIVINE SOUL OF MAN
SEARCHING FOR WHOLENESS, OR DIVINITY The passage “Do I contradict myself? / Very well, then, I contradict myself. / I am large, I contain multitudes.”, from section 51 of “Song of Myself”, is a true picture of Whitman and the … Continue reading
Our first post on this blog: Spain, football and Lorca
In my first article on my All About Walt Whitman, Poetic Seeds In The Kosmos, my blog on Walt Whitman, I talk about Spain’s brilliant national soccer team and how it is heading to victory at Euro 2008; however, let … Continue reading
