A leaf of grass from Shady hill : with a review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass / written by Charles Eliot Norton in 1855.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author.

Contributor:

Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, 1895-1975, writer of introduction.

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969, former owner.

Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952, former owner.

John Barnard Associates, publisher.

Harvard University. Press, printer.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.

Whitman, Walt.

Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt).

Penn Provenance:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)

Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952 (donor) (Whitman Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

31 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 29 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. : Printed at the Harvard University Press.

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : John Barnard Associates, [1928]

Contents:

Preface. -A leaf of grass from Shady Hill: an explanatory essay by Kenneth Ballard Murdock.

A leaf of grass. Written by Charles Eliot Norton. Now printed for the first time from the original manuscript in the Norton Collection of the Harvard College Library. -A review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. (By Charles Eliot Norton.) Reprinted from Putnam's Monthly, New York, September, 1855.

Notes:

"This volume is printed for the John Barnard Associates to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Edward Norton 1827-1927."--Verso of half-title leaf.

"Printed at the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A."--Verso of title leaf.

"This little book, printed to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Eliot Norton, contains a poem by him, inspired by Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass, and also his review of that work, printed anonymously in Putnam's monthly for September 1855. The introductory essay [by Kenneth Ballard Murdock] gives the evidence for ascribing both the poem and the review to Norton"--Preface.

"An explanatory essay by Kenneth Ballard Murdock" : pages [7]-20.

The poem is "now printed for the first time from the original manuscript in the Norton collection of the Harvard college library." The review is "reprinted from Putnam's monthly, New York, September, 1855."

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.

Whitman Collection copy: pages [5]-[8] unopened at head edge.

Whitman Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 1940 by Mr. George P. Winship.

Other Format:

Online version: Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. Leaf of grass from Shady hill.

OCLC:

1223478