Walt Whitman
Author
Language
English
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Description
The text of this facsimile of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published by Whitman in Brooklyn in 1855, is reproduced from a copy in the Library of Yale University. The eight pages of first comments and reviews, added to later copies of the first edition by Whitman and containing a review in The American Phrenological Journal specifically attributed to the poet himself, are from a copy in the collection of The Pierpont Morgan Library. The printed...
2) Walt Whitman
Author
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xlv, 913 pages : portraits, facsimiles ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whitman employs the cadence of simple, even idiomatic speech to "sing" national identity. Throughout his prolific career, Whitman continually revised and expanded Leaves of Grass, which went through nine editions. This volume include the first edition, the final, authorized "Death-Bed" edition, and selections of the best poems from preceding editions and other sources. Whitman employs the cadence of simple, even idiomatic speech to "sing" national...
Author
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
xxiv, 197 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Walt Whitman's Specimen Days, published in 1882, provides an extraordinary picture of an aging poet reassessing the path of his long life, one intrinsically linked with the trajectory-and traumas-of the nation he cherished so deeply. Its diary-like entries, is a prose compilation of a life lived richly and in the service of others, as well an enduring portrait of...
7) Walt Whitman
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
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Description
Presents a brief biography of poet Walt Whitman, including excerpts of his poems, like "Song of Myself."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
viii, 119 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature. This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
vi, 90 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand as a volunteer in Washington's military hospitals. This superb selection of poems, letters, and prose from that era includes "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xiii, 269 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume reprints the whole of the initial, 1855 version of Leaves of grass (with titles and section numbers, as they would appear in later editions, supplied in brackets). Added, too, are a handful of poems from across the length of Whitman's career--these taken from the 1891-92 "Deathbed edition," though arranged chronologically--and selected prose pieces"--Page xiii.
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Poems from one of America's best known poets, reflecting the tragic and powerful era of the war between the states. In two parts, "Memories of President Lincoln" as he and the nation mourn Lincoln's death, and "Drum-Taps" from Whitman's experiences as a nurse tending the wounded.
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 170 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to create a new, modern poetry of war, a poetry not just of patriotic...