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ISBN
9780940450028
Book Title
Walt Whitman : Poetry and Prose (Loa #3)
Item Length
8.1in
Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
Publication Year
1982
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.8in
Author
Walt. Whitman
Genre
Poetry, History, Literary Collections
Topic
United States / 19th Century, General, American / General
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
30.4 Oz
Number of Pages
1380 Pages

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This Library of America edition is the biggest and best edition of Walt Whitman's writings ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass . This was the book, a commercial failure, which prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman- "I greet you at the beginning of a great career." These twelve poems, including what were later to be entitled "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric," and a preface announcing the author's poetic theories were the first stage of a massive, lifelong work. Six editions and some thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Grass becameone of the central volumes in the history of world poetry. Each edition involved revisions of earlier poems and the incorporation of new ones.As it progressed, it was hailed by Emerson, Thoreau, Rosetti and others, but was also, as with the sixth edition in 1881-82, beset by charges of obscenity for such poems as "A Woman Waits for Me." Printed here is the final, great culminating edition of 1891-92, the last supervised by Whitman himself just before his death. Whitman's prose is no less extraordinary. Specimen Days and Collect (1882) includes reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City that will fascinate readers in the twenty-first, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals, and trenchant comments on books and authors. Democratic Vistas (1871), in its attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the Civil War, is relevant to conditions in our own time, and November Boughs (1888) brings together retrospective prefaces, opinions, and random autobiographical bits that are in effect an extended epilogue on Whitman's life, works, and times. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
094045002x
ISBN-13
9780940450028
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Walt Whitman : Poetry and Prose (Loa #3)
Author
Walt. Whitman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, General, American / General
Publication Year
1982
Genre
Poetry, History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
1380 Pages

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Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
30.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3231
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Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"Beautiful and authoritative . . . the most comprehensive volume ever published of the works of Whitman." -- The New York Times
Copyright Date
1982
Lccn
81-020768
Dewey Decimal
811/.3
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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  • by ob-dEOPXQVG@Deleted
    Sep 06, 2010

    Difficult book to find

    Bought this book for my granddaughter for school, but I am a huge fan of Walt Whitman. I could not believe how difficult it was to find this for her. The book was in gook condition and reading his poems brought back many memories in New England.

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