The Complete Poems

Walt Whitman

£16.99

This edition reprints the final, or ‘death-bed’, edition of ‘Leaves of Grass’. Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 ‘Song of Myself’. Whitman’s early poems appear in an appendix, so that this book contains all Whitman’s known work.

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ISBN: 9780140424515 Category: Tag:

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Weight 0.617 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

896

Language

English

Edition

New edition

Dewey

811.3 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

Description

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America’s most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful ‘Song of Myself’ and ‘I Sing the Body Electric’ to the elegiac ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’, Whitman’s art fuses oratory, journalism and song in a vivid celebration of humanity.

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