The Portable Walt Whitman: Revised Edition (The Viking Portable Library)
by Walt Whitman
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When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass , and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days , and Slang in America .
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- Title
- The Portable Walt Whitman: Revised Edition (The Viking Portable Library)
- Author
- Walt Whitman
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140150781
- ISBN 13
- 9780140150780
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
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