SONG OF MYSELF: AND OTHER POEMS

Book ID/图书代码： 03371011B44797

English Summary/英文概要： “Song of Myself,” the premier poem in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is widely believed to be one of the most important poems in American literature. A large part of the brilliance of “Song of Myself” is the raffish playfulness of its diction—the poem belongs to the mid-nineteenth century’s love of wordplay that also characterizes Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

Walt Whitman was deeply interested in the American language as it was emerging in his time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp’s lexicon walks us through his greatest poem and, in its footsteps, much is revealed about the words Whitman chose in 1855—their inflections, meanings, and native usages we wouldn’t otherwise know. We are made to understand, perhaps truly for the first time, Whitman’s query in “Song of Myself”: “Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?”

In the first part of the collection, Hass offers an introduction to the poem and then, with Ebenkamp, a rich annotation of “Song of Myself.” The second part of this book includes poems from the span of Whitman’s career, selected by Hass, that give us a fresh look at the beauty, authority, and sweep of Whitman’s work.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “属于我的歌”是惠特尼的《草叶集》中第一首开篇诗，也被广泛认为是美国文学作品中最为重要的诗歌之一。从很大程度上来说，“属于我的歌”是放荡不羁地将诗歌的发音做了各种游戏般的尝试，这也是十九世纪中期备受人们喜爱的文字游戏的一种，也是狄更斯以及马克•吐温经常做的。

惠特曼对于美国语言的兴趣非常浓厚，Robert Hass和Paul Ebenkamp将带读者研究过惠特曼诗歌中对于词的解读，其中在1855年他所选择使用的词汇中有很多都有特别的用法。我们因此或许是第一次相信惠特曼在“属于我的歌”中的说法：“你是否为因为弄懂了诗歌的含义而感到自豪？”

在第一部分选集中，Hass介绍了一些诗以及“属于我的歌”的大量注评。第二部分中，从惠特曼的职业生涯角度回顾了一些Hass精选的诗歌，从而从全新的角度让读者去发现惠特曼作品中的美和力量。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：没有一个诗人比Robert Hass更有天分的了。（《The Atlantic Monthly》）
这是一个希望能够活出诗意的聪明人留下的散文诗，不是为了炫耀也没有得以吹嘘，而是少有地充满了感激和崇敬。（Times Literary Supplement）

Praise for Robert Hass
“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”---The Atlantic Monthly

Praise for 20th Century Pleasures by Robert Hass
“Here [is] the prose of an intelligent man who wishes to serve poetry—not appropriate it or crow over it or show off at its expense—and this is a rare enough experience to arouse gratitude and admiration.”---Times Literary Supplement

“[Hass’s] final intention is not merely to judge but to give a picture of the writer’s mind . . . Mr. Hass believes that poetry is what defines the self, and it is his ability to describe that process that is the heart of this book’s pleasure.”---The New York Times Book Review Product Details

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