Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman ( Book )
1,513 editions published between 1717 and 2011 in 42 languages and held by 6,543 libraries worldwide
Collected writings of Walt Whitman.

Complete poetry and collected prose : Leaves of grass (1855) ; Leaves of grass (1891-92) ; Complete prose works (1892) ; Supplementary prose by Walt Whitman ( Book )
14 editions published between 1982 and 1995 in English and held by 3,159 libraries worldwide
This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, that prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career". These twelve poems, including what were later to be entitled "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric", and a preface announcing the author's poetic theories, were the first stage of a massive, lifelong work. Six editions and some thirty-seven years later Leaves of Grass had become one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry. Each edition involved revisions of earlier poems and the incorporation of new ones. In 1856, for example, he added such poems as "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Spontaneous Me"; in the third edition (1860) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and two new sections, "Calamus" and "Children of Adam". In the fourth (1867) he incorporated the Civil War poems published a few years earlier as Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, including the poems on the death of Lincoln, notably "When Lilacs Last in the Door Yard Bloom'd." And so it went, a triumphant progress, hailed by Emerson, Thoreau, Rossetti and others, but also, as with the sixth edition in 1881-82, beset by charges of obscenity for such poems as "A Woman Waits for Me." Printed here is the final, the great culminating edition of 1891-92, the last supervised by Whitman himself just before his death. Whitman's prose is no less extraordinary. Specimen Days and Collect (1882) includes reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City that will fascinate readers in the twentieth, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals, and trenchant comments on books and authors. Democratic Vistas (1871), in its attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the Civil War, is relevant to conditions in our own time, and November Boughs (1888) brings together retrospective prefaces, opinions, random autobiographical bits that are in effect an extended epilogue on Whitman's life, works, and times. Here it all is, the complete Whitman-elegiac, comic, furtive, outrageous-the most innovative and original of American authors.

Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman ( Book )
174 editions published between 1876 and 2008 in 8 languages and held by 2,854 libraries worldwide
In this provocative edition, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents more than 200 of Whitman's finest poems, written during the creative and sexual prime of his life. Line drawings. 7 photos.

Selected poems by Walt Whitman ( Book )
89 editions published between 1868 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 2,303 libraries worldwide
Bloom, author of "The Western Canon" and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of "Song of Myself" to the late poems of "Good-bye My Fancy."

Walt Whitman's Civil War by Walt Whitman ( Book )
18 editions published between 1960 and 1998 in English and held by 1,412 libraries worldwide
A collection of notes, letters and poems written by Whitman during the war--New York herald tribune lively arts.

Specimen days by Walt Whitman ( Book )
100 editions published between 1882 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,382 libraries worldwide

A sea symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams ( Recording )
167 editions published between 1909 and 2009 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 1,288 libraries worldwide

Prose works 1892 by Walt Whitman ( Book )
94 editions published between 1881 and 2007 in English and held by 1,253 libraries worldwide
The Good Gray Poet also contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with his war diaries, Prefaces and Democratic Vistas in this complete Prose Works, the companion volume to Bartleby.com's Leaves of Grass.

Complete poetry and selected prose by Walt Whitman ( Book )
5 editions published in 1959 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,166 libraries worldwide
Representative writings of the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher are supplemented by textual notes.

Six American poets : an anthology ( Book )
2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,165 libraries worldwide
An anthology of 247 memorable poems by six of America's greatest poets encompasses the works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes.