The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 2003 M12 30 - 608 pages A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... GRASS 1855 1856 1860 1865-66 - DRUM-TAPS [1865] AND SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS [1865-66] 1867 1871 1872 1876 1881 1888 1891 PROSE WRITINGS “THE CHILD'S CHAMPION” PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS DEMOCRATIC VISTAS FROM SPECIMEN DAYS ...
... Grass, which he continued to revise and republish over his lifetime. The Civil War found him working as an unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers in army hospitals in Washington, D.C. After the war he became a clerk in the ...
... editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author's rights is appreciated. http://us.penguingroup.com Introduction When Leaves of Grass first appeared in July 1855,
... Grass,” nothing more. As more than one reviewer noted, there seemed to be nothing poetic about them except that each line began with a capital letter. They did not rhyme; they had no meter; the lines were of wildly uneven length, often ...
... Grass. (Cabinet members in those days evidently had enough time on their hands to snoop through their clerks' desk drawers.) Publishers repeatedly refused to handle him. In 1882 the Boston district attorney threatened him.
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