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The Walt Whitman Reader : selections from Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Series:
- Courage classics
- Standardized Title:
- Leaves of grass. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Poetry.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Local Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages ; 22 cm
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Courage Books, [1993].
- Contents:
- Introduction
- One's-Self I Sing
- As I Ponder'd in Silence
- In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
- To Thee, Old Cause!
- Starting from Paumanok
- Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)
- From Pent-up Aching Rivers
- I Sing the Body Electric
- In Paths Untrodden
- Recorders Ages Hence
- Salut au Monde
- American Feuillage
- Song of the Broad-Axe
- Song of the Open Road
- As I Lay with Head in Your Lap, Camerado
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Now List to my Morning's Romanza
- I Hear America Singing
- Carol of Occupations
- The Sleepers
- Carol of Words
- There was a Child went Forth
- Drum-Taps
- As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores
- Mannahatta
- Passage to India
- Proud Music of the Storm
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd
- O Captain! My Captain!
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- A Carol of Harvest for 1867
- Sparkles from The Wheel
- As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
- Essays.
- Notes:
- "The text of this volume is excerpted from 1891-92 edition of 'Leaves of Grass' published by David McKay, Philadelphia, in 1900 and made available through the courtesy of the Miriam Coffin Canady Library, Bryn Mawr College."--Title page verso.
- "The essay 'Observations on Walt Whitman' by T.S. Eliot was first published in The Nation & The Athenaeum, XL (Dec. 18, 1926)."--Title page verso.
- "The essay 'Whitman' by D.H. Lawrence from Studies in Classic American Literature. Copyright © 1923 by Thomas Seltzer, Inc., renewed 1950 by Frieda Lawrence ..."--Title page verso.
- "Cover illustration by Lars Hokanson. Portrait of Walt Whitman provided by The Granger Collection, New York. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Interior design by Elizabeth Schwartz. Typography: ITC Berkeley Oldstyle, by Deborah Lugar."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teache.
- Running Press copy has dustjacket retained.
- Running Press copy is "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 156138268X
- 9781561382682
- OCLC:
- 28230251
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