Walt Whitman Poetry and Prose (LOA #3)

Name: Walt Whitman Poetry and Prose (LOA #3)
Price: 8.03 USD
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ISBN: 9780940450028

ISBN-10: 094045002X

ISBN-13: 9780940450028

Edition: 1982

Authors: Walt. Whitman, Justin Kaplan

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This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This 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, that 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…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 5/6/1982
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1380
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.11" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 2.156



Leaves of Grass (1855)


Leaves of Grass (1891-92)


Complete Prose Works (1892)


Supplementary Prose


Chronology


Note on the Texts


Notes


Poetry Title Index


Index of First Lines