Walt Whitman
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A fully unexpurgated collection that restores the sexual vitality and subversive flair suppressed by Whitman himself in later editions of Leaves of Grass.
A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over 200 poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's original...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Walt Whitman collection.
Leaves of Grass (First Edition):
Song of Myself
A Song for Occupations
To Think of Time
The Sleepers
I Sing the Body Electric
Faces
Song of the Answerer
Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States
A Boston Ballad
There Was a Child Went Forth
Who Learns My Lesson Complete
Great Are the Myths
Leaves of Grass (Final Edition):
Inscriptions
Starting from Paumanok
Song of...
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As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never published...
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"My words itch at your ears till you understand them."-"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
There is a reason the words of Walt Whitman have persisted in American literature, in literature at large, for so long. He was not simply a man of his time, not just a writer for the moment. Whitman was a man of the people and a writer of the soul-the souls of humankind, and the soul of America.
Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium spans the breadth...
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"The World's Best Poetry: Sorrow and Consolation" by Heinrich Heine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew Lang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eugene Field, John Milton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Austin Dobson, Francis Bacon, Lyman Abbott, Lord Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary...