Walt Whitman's leaves of grass / edited, with an introduction, by Malcolm Cowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Contributor:

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

Series:

Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

Leaves of grass

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 145 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

First (1855) edition.

Other Title:

Leaves of grass.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, 1986, c1959.

Summary:

As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing," for it exhibits "Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience." Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars, faithfully edited it, added his own Introduction and Whitman's original Introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman's life), and returned it to the common readership for whom the great poet intended it.

Contents:

Facsimile Frontispiece 2

Facsimile Title Page 3

Whitman's Introduction 5

Song of Myself 25

A Song for Occupations 87

To Think of Time 98

The Sleepers 105

I Sing the Body Electric 116

Faces 124

Song of the Answerer 129

Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States 133

A Boston Ballad 135

There Was a Child Went Forth 138

Who Learns My Lesson Complete 140

Great Are the Myths 142.

ISBN:

0140421998

OCLC:

13123730