Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2013 M10 8 - 560 pages A fully unexpurgated collection that restores the sexual vitality and subversive flair suppressed by Whitman himself in later editions of Leaves of Grass. |
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... lines he wrote areincluded in this edition. On his fifty-sixth birthday in 1875, Whitman,newly afflicted bya “tedious attack of paralysis,” fondlyrecalled “how much myformer poems,thebulk of them, are indeed the expression of health and ...
... censoringto the simply ill-advised (and, beitalsosaid, occasionally totheimproving), several advantagesof this edition can be noted. While a few treasurable lines may be lost in the process (“Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,”
... furnishedwith genitals!” butby 1871 the poetcametofeel embarrassed by the poem and suppressed itentirely.The wonderful, brief lover's cri decoeur, “Not MyEnemiesEver Invade Me,” was also suppressed in 1871. The innocuous line.
... line of 1867 in “Paumanok”—“Not he with daily kiss onward from childhood kissing me”—becomes, when wereturn to itsfirst version,anexplicit assertion of same-sex love: “Nothe, adhesive, kissingme so longwithhis daily kiss.” Crucial ...
... line synopsis of the ethos of the three early editions as onecould wish. But ecstasy, alas, isnot a notably lasting phenomenon.Most tellingly, Whitman chose to banishthis superbly confessional line fromthenext edition of 1867.The ...