The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin Books, 1977 - 648 pages When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America. |
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Page 71
Walt Whitman, Mark Van Doren Malcolm Cowley. The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them .... the scenery is plain in all directions , The white - topped mountains point up in the distance .... I fling out my fancies toward them ...
Walt Whitman, Mark Van Doren Malcolm Cowley. The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them .... the scenery is plain in all directions , The white - topped mountains point up in the distance .... I fling out my fancies toward them ...
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Walt Whitman, Mark Van Doren Malcolm Cowley. Once I Pass'd through a Populous City Once I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows , architecture , customs , traditions , Yet now of all that city I ...
Walt Whitman, Mark Van Doren Malcolm Cowley. Once I Pass'd through a Populous City Once I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows , architecture , customs , traditions , Yet now of all that city I ...
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... Pass'd ! pass'd ! for us , forever pass'd , that once so mighty world , now void , inanimate , phantom world , Embroider'd , dazzling , foreign world , with all its gorgeous legends , myths , Its kings and castles proud , its priests ...
... Pass'd ! pass'd ! for us , forever pass'd , that once so mighty world , now void , inanimate , phantom world , Embroider'd , dazzling , foreign world , with all its gorgeous legends , myths , Its kings and castles proud , its priests ...
Contents
Editors Note to Leaves of Grass | 28 |
Song of the BroadAxe 1856 | 136 |
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1856 | 149 |
Copyright | |
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