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A Novel Journal: Leaves of Grass (Compact) by Walt Whitman
Category: Stationery | Series: Novel Journals
Fill these leaves of paper with your deepest thoughts on the nature of humanity. If you're looking for a new book in which to record your thoughts, lists, and more, you're in luck Canterbury Classics, known for publishing fine works of literature, has released their next set of writing journals for ...Show more
Brooklyn by Walt Whitman
Category: Travel
Walt Whitman lived and worked and matured as an artist and thinker in Brooklyn, NY. The bustling port, full of life and diversity, expanded his mind and excited his senses. Whitman whole-heartedly embraced the life of Brooklyn in his poetry and prose - most notably culminating Leaves of Grass, the defin ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's inn ...Show more
Leaves Of Grass And Selected Poems And Prose by Walt Whitman
Category: Classics
W is for Whitman. 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 character. Throughout his life, Whitman cont ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Category: Gift
A controversial book for its time, Leaves of Grass is a celebration of the human body and spirit in the natural world. This book when first published under went many revisions by Whitman, and expanded each time starting with twelve poems and finally ending with four-hundred While on the edge of acceptab ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Walt. Whitman; Wharton Esherick (Illustrator)
Category: Classics
Whitman's greatest legacy is his invention of a truly American free verse. His groundbreaking, open, inclusive, and optimistic poems are written in long, sprawling lines and span an astonishing variety of subject matter and points of view - embodying the democratic spirit of his new America. He uses a n ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Category: Classics
This 150th anniversary edition of the collection that remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets features a new Foreword by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and a new Afterword by Peter Davison. First published 1891-92. This edition first published April 2005. This co ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars...First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, 'Leaves of Grass' has become one of the most celebrated poetry ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Steven (INT) Walt; Schroeder Whitman
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
First published in 1855 with Whitman's own money, Leaves of Grass is a highly sensual collection of verses that became a monument to American poetry.The journalist, philosopher, clerk, and Civil War nurse spent the following four decades revising and expanding the work from twelve poems to a massive fou ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Category: Australiana
One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, p ...Show more