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Walt Whitman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W S1926.3 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Series:
- Augustan books of modern poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--19th century.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-1951 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv, 5-30 pages ; 22 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Guildford ; and Esher : Made and printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons, Ltd. ...
- Place of Publication:
- London : Ernest Benn Ltd. ..., [1926]
- Contents:
- Shut not your doors
- From song of the exposition
- From song of myself
- To the man-of-war bird
- Youth, day, old age, and night
- Memories of President Lincoln
- O captain! My captain!
- Reconciliation
- How solemn as one by one
- Roaming in thought
- A clear midnight
- A noiseless patient spider
- As at thy portals also death
- Death's valley
- The last invocation.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Publication date supplied from Myerson; place of printing and printer's name from page [ii].
- Series statement from cover.
- "The Augustan books of poetry edited by Edward Thompson"--Page [ii].
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("To Mrs Sprague from H.S. Saunders Dec. 1926") on cover.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, C 54, page 454
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Walt Whitman.
- OCLC:
- 1064676
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