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The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)

By Walt Whitman

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0142437689, 9780142437681
LCC
PS3203 .W38 2004
Open Library ID
OL3685901M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1714024 bytes)
Edition
Rev Sub
Pages
608\609
Topic
Literature Literary
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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