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Leaves of Grass - The Complete Deathbed Edition of Walt Whitman's Celebrated Poems
Paperback
Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9781934451526
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Mar 27 2007
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.05
Language: English
Walt Whitman's great poetic celebration of the individual, the body, democracy, nature, love, labor, and the boundless variety of American life appears here in its expansive final form. Beginning with a slender collection of twelve poems in 1855, Whitman revised and enlarged Leaves of Grass throughout his life until it had grown into a sweeping volume of nearly four hundred poems. This substantial edition presents the mature collection commonly known as the 1891-1892 deathbed edition.
At its heart stands Song of Myself, Whitman's audacious declaration of identity and shared humanity, joined by such enduring works as I Sing the Body Electric, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, and O Captain! My Captain! Across these poems, Whitman writes of desire and mortality, war and mourning, comradeship and solitude, the natural world and the developing American nation.
Whitman rejected conventional poetic forms in favor of long, flowing lines, direct address, catalogues, repetition, and an inclusive voice capable of embracing contradiction. The result transformed American poetry and influenced generations of writers around the world. At more than three hundred pages, this edition offers readers the full breadth of Whitman's lifelong masterpiece rather than the abbreviated selections often published under the same title.
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