Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanSong of Myself ...
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
LEAVES OF GRASS
Author: WALT WHITMANWalt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195183428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature.
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509890785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett. Whitman wrote about the United States and its people, its revolutionary spirit and about democracy. He wrote openly about the body and about desire in a way that completely broke with convention and which paved the way for a completely new kind of poetry. This new collection is taken from the final version, the Deathbed edition, and it includes his most famous poems such as ‘Song of Myself’ and ‘I Sing the Body Electric’.
Poems by Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Presents Whitman's classic poem celebrating himself and the American experience.
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019972721X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
As featured in AMC's Breaking Bad, given by Gale Boetticher to Walter White and discovered by Hank Schrader. "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world. This Anniversary Edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself. Today's readers get a sense of the "ur-text" of Leaves of Grass, the first version of this historic volume, before Whitman made many revisions of both format and style. The volume also boasts an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its contributions to literary history. There is also an appendix containing the early responses to the volume, including Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines. This special volume will be a must-have keepsake for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry.