Leaves of grass, 1860 : the 150th anniversary facsimile edition / / Walt Whitman ; edited by Jason Stacy
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| Autore: |
Whitman Walt <1819-1892.>
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| Titolo: |
Leaves of grass, 1860 : the 150th anniversary facsimile edition / / Walt Whitman ; edited by Jason Stacy
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st University of Iowa Press ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (551 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry - 19th century |
| Poetry, Modern - 19th century | |
| Altri autori: |
StacyJason <1970->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents to Facsimile Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Contents; Proto-Leaf; Walt Whitman; Chants Democratic and Native American: Numbers 1 to 21; Leaves of Grass: Numbers 1 to 24; Salut au Monde; Poem of Joys; A Word Out of the Sea; A Leaf of Faces; Europe, the 72d and 73d Years T. S.; Enfans D'Adam: Numbers 1 to 15; Poem of the Road; To the Sayers of Words; A Boston Ballad, the 78th Year T. S.; Calamus: Numbers 1 to 45; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Longings for Home; Messenger Leaves; To You, Whoever You Are; To a Foiled Revolter or Revoltress; To Him that was Crucified |
| To One Shortly to DieTo a Common Prostitute; To Rich Givers; To a Pupil; To the States, to Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad; To a Cantatrice; Walt Whitman's Caution; To a President; To Other Lands; To Old Age; To You; To You; Mannahatta; France, the 18th Year T. S.; Thoughts: Numbers 1 to 7; Unnamed Lands; Kosmos; A Hand-Mirror; Beginners . . . Tests; Savantism . . . Perfections; Says; Debris; Sleep-Chasings; Burial; To My Soul; So long; Annotations | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In May 1860, Walt Whitman published a third edition of Leaves of Grass. His timing was compelling. Printed during a period of regional, ideological, and political divisions, written by a poet intimately concerned with the idea of a United States as "essentially the greatest poem," this new edition was Whitman's last best hope for national salvation. Now available in a facsimile edition, Leaves of Grass, 1860 faithfully reproduces Whitman's attempt to create a "Great construction of the New Bible" to save the nation on the eve of civil war and, for the first time, frames the book in historical |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Leaves of grass, 1860 |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-877-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809098303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Iowa Whitman series.