Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Mitarbeit:Cowley, Malcolm

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Features the poem of the author.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 40476
• 1st ed. 1855
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 1981
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780140421996
• ISBN-10: 0140421998
• Artikelnr.: 21195623

Autorenporträt

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. Malcolm Cowley (editor/introducer; 1898–1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time, wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction
vii
LEAVES OF GRASS
Facsimile Frontispiece
2
(1)
Facsimile Title Page
3
(2)
Whitman's Introduction
5
(20)
Song of Myself1
25
(62)
A Song for Occupations
87
(11)
To Think of Time
98
(7)
The Sleepers
105
(11)
I Sing the Body Electric
116
(8)
Faces
124
(5)
Song of the Answerer
129
(4)
Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States
133
(2)
A Boston Ballad
135
(3)
There Was a Child Went Forth
138
(2)
Who Learns My Lesson Complete
140
(2)
Great Are the Myths
142

Rezensionen

Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman the one pioneer . . . Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none. D. H. Lawrence