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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... stand alone to capture Whitman's work. In this collection, the poems are taken from the last edition, the so-called “Deathbed Edition” of 1891-92 (with the exception of two draft versions, noted in their place). The poems are given here ...
... stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of ...
... stands yet untouch'd, untold, altogether unreach'd.” In the “Calamus” poems, differences of form as well as theme are striking. Where the poems of the 1855 version are loud and expansive, seemingly wanting to go on forever, the “Calamus ...
... Stand up, tall masts of Manna hatta!... Throb, baffled and curious brain!” Whitman, full of affirmation that he is, does not seek to exonerate the world or redeem it. His attitude is fundamentally a refusal to see the world as in need ...
... stand. Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. Showing the best and dividing it from ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |