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| Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry American poetry Inscriptions (Provenance) Poésie |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940 (OCoLC)647017738 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walt Whitman; Richard W Ellis; Christopher Morley; Lewis C Daniel; Zeese-Wilkinson Company.; P.H. Glatfelter Co.; Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.; Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress) |
| OCLC Number: | 759929 |
| Notes: | "This Edition ... was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction. The illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel were reproduced in Similetone and Inlaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company of Long Island City. The paper was specially made for this new edition by the P.H. Glatfelter Company of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The Composition, Printing and Binding by The Haddon Craftsmen of Camden, New Jersey."--Colophon. |
| Description: | xiii pages, 2 leaves, 3-316 pages : plates (some color) ; 28 x 22 cm |
| Contents: | Song of the open road -- One's-self I sing -- I hear America singing -- To you -- In cabin'd ships at sea -- Starting from Paumanok -- Song of myself -- I sing the body electric -- Out of the rolling ocean the crowd -- Whoever you are holding me now in hand -- Once I pass'd through a populous city -- Sometimes with one I love -- Of the terrible doubt of appearances -- The base of all metaphysics -- Salut au monde! -- Song of the broad-axe -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -- Ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats -- Song of the answerer -- When I read the book -- A song for occupations -- Me imperturbe -- Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me -- Beat! Beat! Drums! -- Rise O days from your fathomless deeps -- Long, too long America -- Ethiopia saluting the colors -- A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown -- Thick-sprinkled bunting -- The wound-dresser -- Give me the splendid silent Sun -- By blue Ontario's shore -- Pioneers! O pioneers! -- Beginners -- To the states -- To you -- Years of the modern -- When I hear the learn'd astronomer -- Passage to India -- Ashes of soldiers -- To a certain civilian -- This dust was once the man -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd -- O Captain! My Captain! -- The last invocation -- What place is besieged? -- Whispers of heavenly death -- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking -- The return of the heroes -- As I ponder'd in silence -- Gods -- Song of the exposition -- Thou Mother with thy equal brood -- The mystic trumpeter -- Song of the redwood-tree -- Song of the universal -- To a locomotive in winter -- To the man-of-war bird -- Great are the myths -- The dalliance of the eagles -- To thee old cause -- Preface to 1855 edition of "Leaves of grass" -- A font of type. |
| Responsibility: | selected and with an introduction by Christopher Morley ; illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. |
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