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Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

By Kenneth M. Price , Ed Folsom , Susan Belasco

Book information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0803260008, 9780803260009, 9780803208780
LCC
PS3238 .L34 2007
Open Library ID
OL11212086M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2067261 bytes)
Pages
504\504
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector’s item, this edition is now viewed as the poet’s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy. The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitman’s poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic issues, nineteenth-century America, and even the complex typographical history of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The volume also includes a tribute from the renowned poet Galway Kinnell.

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