Leaves of Grass
The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$36.26
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2006
Summary
A deluxe edition of Whitman’s crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American chara…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143039273 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014303927X |
| Author: | Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 150th |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 143mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition |
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“Whitman’s best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years.” –Malcolm Cowley
“Whitman’s best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years.”–Malcolm Cowley
About The Author
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer’s devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.
Harold Bloom was the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than twenty-five books included Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?; Hamlet; Genius; How to Read and Why; Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human; The Western Canon; The Book of J; and The Anxiety of Influence. He was a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy’s Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.
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