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An impressive assembly of prose and poems from the first truly American poetWhen 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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The Portable Walt Whitman
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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The portable Walt Whitman
1985, Viking
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- Rev. / by Malcolm Cowley ; with a chronology and bibliographical check list by Gay Wilson Allen.
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The portable Walt Whitman
1979, Penguin Books
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The Portable Walt Whitman: Revised Edition (The Viking Portable Library)
June 30, 1977, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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June 30, 1977, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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"Bibliographical check list, by Gay Wilson Allen": p. 641-648.
Reprint of the rev. ed., 1974, published by Viking Press, New York, in series: Viking portable library.
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