Complete poetry and collected prose
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New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Viking Press, ©1982.
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Book
ISBN
094045002X, 9780940450028, 0521262151, 9780521262156
Physical Desc
1380 pages ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Barnstable Sturgis Library - Adult | 811 WHI | On Shelf |
Brewster Ladies' Library - Adult | 818 WHITMAN | On Shelf |
Cape Cod Community College Wilkens Library - Third Floor | PS3200 .F82 1982 | On Shelf |
Chatham Eldredge Public Library - Adult | 811 Whi | On Shelf |
Edgartown Public Library - Adult | 811 WHI | On Shelf |
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Viking Press, ©1982.
Language
English
ISBN
094045002X, 9780940450028, 0521262151, 9780521262156
UPC
9780940450028
Notes
General Note
Includes indexes.
General Note
"Contents: Each section has its own table of contents."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Creation/Production Credits
"Justin Kaplan wrote the notes and chronology and selected the contents for this volume"--Acknowledgments page.
Description
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 Leaves of Grass had become one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry. Each edition involved revisions of earlier poems and the incorporation of new ones. In 1856, for example, he added such poems as "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Spontaneous Me"; in the third edition (1860) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and two new sections, "Calamus" and "Children of Adam". In the fourth (1867) he incorporated the Civil War poems published a few years earlier as Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, including the poems on the death of Lincoln, notably "When Lilacs Last in the Door Yard Bloom'd." And so it went, a triumphant progress, hailed by Emerson, Thoreau, Rossetti and others, but also, as with the sixth edition in 1881-82, beset by charges of obscenity for such poems as "A Woman Waits for Me." Printed here is the final, the great culminating edition of 1891-92, the last supervised by Whitman himself just before his death. Whitman's prose is no less extraordinary. Specimen Days and Collect (1882) includes reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City that will fascinate readers in the twentieth, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals, and trenchant comments on books and authors. Democratic Vistas (1871), in its attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the Civil War, is relevant to conditions in our own time, and November Boughs (1888) brings together retrospective prefaces, opinions, random autobiographical bits that are in effect an extended epilogue on Whitman's life, works, and times. Here it all is, the complete Whitman-elegiac, comic, furtive, outrageous-the most innovative and original of American authors.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Whitman, W., Campbell, B., & Scudellari, R. D. (1982). Complete poetry and collected prose . Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Viking Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, Bruce Campbell and R. D. Scudellari. 1982. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Viking Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, Bruce Campbell and R. D. Scudellari. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Viking Press, 1982.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Whitman, Walt, Bruce Campbell, and R. D Scudellari. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Viking Press, 1982.
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