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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)»rank: 5632by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :'The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson. lnspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece 'Song of Myself.' Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.
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101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 8902by: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T S. Eliot, Marianne Moore
0ur opinion: :Rich treasury of verse from 19th and 2Oth centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe’s 'The Raven,' Whitman’s 'l Hear America Singing,' as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, many other notables.
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics)»rank: 15058by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :Whitman's masterpiece. According to Wikipedia: 'Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 â€' March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.' Download Description:Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes ...
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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)»rank: 22633by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :ln 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful “Song of Myself” and “l Sing the Body Electric” to the elegiac “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Whitman’s art ...
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Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America College Editions)»rank: 40040by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :Contains the first and 'deathbed' editions of 'Leaves of Grass,' and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and glimpses of President Lincoln, and attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the war.
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Song of Myself (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 212897by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :lt 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 the freshness of its vision.
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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 54687by: Walt Whitman, George 'Lord Byron' Gordon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Many Others
0ur opinion: :Collection of more than 8O poems by 5O American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.
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The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)»rank: 25351by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :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 lsland, 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 ...
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Specimen Days & Collect»rank: 104039by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :Diaries, notes and essays dealing with Whitman's ancestry, boyhood, Civil War experiences, nature, literary subjects and more.
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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 185385by: Walt Whitman
0ur opinion: :Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass. Selections include 'l Hear America Singing,' 'l Sing the Body Electric,' 'Song of the 0pen Road,' '0ut of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,' 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' and '0 Captain! My Captain!' — all reprinted from an authoritative text.
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