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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Walt Whitman Michael Warner. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction POEMS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS 1855 1856 1860 1865-66 - DRUM-TAPS [1865] AND SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS [1865-66] 1867 1871 1872 1876 1881 1888 1891 PROSE ...
Walt Whitman Michael Warner. Introduction. When Leaves of Grass first appeared in July 1855, in a private printing of about 800 copies, everything about the book seemed odd. It was a very thin volume with big pages. The dark green binding ...
Walt Whitman Michael Warner. More than anyone else before him, Whitman understood his art as normatively experimental. That is not to say that it should be formless poetry, which would be a contradiction in terms. Whitman's long line ...
... Whitman, having been “told that he was disgraceful.” On the other side, he attracted defenders, who wrote such apologias as The Good Gray Poet, “A Woman's View of Walt Whitman,” and after his death, The Fight of a Book for the World ...
Walt Whitman Michael Warner. variants. New poems would be added each time, old ones rewritten, and the structure of the book rearranged. As a result, critics remain divided over the merits of different editions, and no one version of ...
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1856 | |
1860 | |
1867 | |
1872 | |
1891 | |
PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |