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It was with this first version of 'Song of Myself,' from the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, that Whitman first made himself known to the world. Readers familiar with the later, revised editions will find this first version new, surprising, and often superior to the revisions, and exhilarating in t[...]

In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh, Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of 'convalescence' in nineteenth-cent[...]

The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of contemporary issues in Whitman?s life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords [...]

One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . [...]

Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained for[...]

In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultu[...]

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to "Leaves of Grass" as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic 'continues to inspi[...]

TO YOU, IDLER. UP! Though your limbs may be corpulent and weary from your sedentary repose, your head a-thunder from an evening of indulgence, your spirit weary from the wretched nine-to-five - fret not, dear man, for within these pages are strategies to replenish and rejuvenate your manly health a[...]