The portable Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman
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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.
Electronic resource
in English
1440615284 9781440615283
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The portable Walt Whitman
1985, Viking
in English
- Rev. / by Malcolm Cowley ; with a chronology and bibliographical check list by Gay Wilson Allen.
0517478595 9780517478592
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The portable Walt Whitman
1979, Penguin Books
in English
- Rev. and enl. ed.
0140150781 9780140150780
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The Portable Walt Whitman: Revised Edition (The Viking Portable Library)
June 30, 1977, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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The Portable Walt Whitman: Revised Edition (The Viking Portable Library)
June 30, 1977, Penguin (Non-Classics)
Paperback
in English
0140150781 9780140150780
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Bibliography: p. 641-648.
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"Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves."
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