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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... remain divided over the merits of different editions, and no one version of Leaves of Grass can stand alone to capture Whitman's work. In this collection, the poems are taken from the last edition, the so-called “Deathbed Edition” of ...
... vision, you are promised no reward apart from that vision itself. If you remain an infidel, you are threatened with no punishment. It is a religion to which you cannot exactly convert; you can only cultivate its habits of seeing and.
... remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast! Come, I am determined to unbare this broad breast of mine—I have long enough stifled and choked; Emblematic and capricious blades, I leave you—now you serve me not, Away! I will say ...
... remains one of the strongest treatments of this or any other war. When Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865, just after the volume appeared, Whitman added new poems to a second printing, including the elegy “When Lilacs Last in the ...
... remains an eloquent (if sometimes bombastic) statement of democratic national ideals, and has survived as a minor classic of political faith. It is especially remarkable for the role it gives to literature in forging the conditions of ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |