Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
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- 16,00 kr
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- 16,00 kr
Publisher Description
Leaves Of Grass is Walt Whitman’s rare and genuine masterpiece; an exhilarating work of artistry deserving of the label in a thousand different ways. It is a landmark of American literature.
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892), one of the greatest authors of the nineteenth century, transformed forever the art of poetry.
He is considered by many to be the quintessential American poet.
His subversive vitality and sexual flare continues to exert a profound influence to this day.
*Contains exclusive content: An Elegy To Walt Whitman, by E.M. Forster, author of A Passage To India.
“This uncensored new edition of Leaves Of Grass is quite simply the most unambiguously clear-eyed version of Walt Whitman’s anthem to bisexuality and independence ever published…”
—Daniel Joyce
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.
