Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (The Greatest Writers of All Time)
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Publisher Description
This ebook collects the six U.S. editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass that he published in his lifetime, plus the annexes of the so-called "Deathbed Edition" from 1891 (the Leaves of Grass portion of which is a reprint of the '81 release).
LEAVES OF GRASS
Brooklyn, New York:
1855.
LEAVES OF GRASS
Brooklyn, New York:
1856.
LEAVES OF GRASS
Boston,
Thayer and Eldridge,
Year 85 of the States, (1860-61)
LEAVES OF GRASS
New-York.
1867.
LEAVES OF GRASS
Washington D. C.
1872.
LEAVES OF GRASS
Boston
James R. Osgood and Company
1881-82
LEAVES OF GRASS
[ANNEXES]
Philadelphia:
David McKay, Publisher
23 South Ninth Street
1891-'2
SOME OF THE POEMS INCLUDED:
Song of Myself, I Sing the Body Electric, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As scholarship has made its importance to American letters more manifest, editions of the 1855 version of Whitman's masterpiece have multiplied. This one, prepared in honor of the poem's 150th anniversary, will be hard to beat. Edited by major Americanist Reynolds (Walt Whitman's America, etc.), it comes as close as possible, without being a facsimile, to reproducing Whitman's original text, which he famously self-published. The familiar litho of the young rough with open collar opens the book, and Reynold's terrific and informative afterword closes it, along with contemporary reviews (some written by Whitman himself) and Emerson's famous letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."). Those who know Whitman only through the beautiful but bloated 1892 "deathbed" edition of Leaves of Grass will find here a lean, searing celebration of self.
