Whitman on Wellness: Poetry and Prose for a Healthy Life

by Walt Whitman and Mose Velsor

Book Overview

Long before today's modern use of the term wellness, Walt Whitman, widely considered to be one of America's greatest poets, extolled the virtues of self-care and the mind-body connection. In a series of thirteen newspaper installments, written in 1858 for The New York Atlas under the pseudonym Mose Velsor -- unearthed more than 150 years later by a University of Houston graduate student -- Whitman adopted the role of advice columnist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486850773
• ISBN13: 9780486850771
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Ixia Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 6.3"