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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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Description for Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Hardcover. Features a great American poem. This book includes an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition, in its social and cultural contexts. It also includes an appendix. It is useful for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the ... Read more
"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
438g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195183429
SKU
V9780195183429
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About Walt Whitman
David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among his many books are Walt Whitman (part of Oxford's Lives and Legacies series), Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle ... Read more
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