Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (LOA #3)
Poetry and Prose (LOA #3)
$87.93
- Hardcover
1380 pages
- Release Date
6 May 1982
Summary
This Library of America edition is the biggest and best edition of Walt Whitman’s writings ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It 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, which prompted Emerson’s famous message to Whitman—”I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” These twelve poems, including wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940450028 |
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| ISBN-10: | 094045002X |
| Author: | Walt Whitman |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1380 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 1982 |
| Weight: | 862g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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“Beautiful and authoritative … the most comprehensive volume ever published of the works of Whitman.” – The New York Times
“Beautiful and authoritative … the most comprehensive volume ever published of the works of Whitman.” —The New York Times
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 and is widely considered the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century.
Justin Kaplan, volume editor, is a writer whose works include Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, which won a Pulitzer Prize in biography and a National Book Award. His Walt Whitman - A Life won the 1981 American Book Award for Biography.
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