Walt Whitman's Leaves of GrassOxford University Press, 15 апр. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 184 As featured in AMC's Breaking Bad, given by Gale Boetticher to Walter White and discovered by Hank Schrader. "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world. This Anniversary Edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself. Today's readers get a sense of the "ur-text" of Leaves of Grass, the first version of this historic volume, before Whitman made many revisions of both format and style. The volume also boasts an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its contributions to literary history. There is also an appendix containing the early responses to the volume, including Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines. This special volume will be a must-have keepsake for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry. |
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... body ........ The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work . He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured .... others may not know it but he shall . He shall go di- rectly to the creation . His trust shall ...
... body ........ The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work . He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured .... others may not know it but he shall . He shall go di- rectly to the creation . His trust shall ...
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... body most .... and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern . Exact science and its practical move- ments are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and sup ...
... body most .... and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern . Exact science and its practical move- ments are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and sup ...
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... body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance . As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light .... the daylight is lit with more vola- tile light ...
... body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance . As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light .... the daylight is lit with more vola- tile light ...
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... body just as much as it gives to the body . Not one name of word or deed..not of venereal sores or discolorations..not the privacy of the onanist..not of the putrid veins of glut- tons or rumdrinkers ... not peculation or cunning or ...
... body just as much as it gives to the body . Not one name of word or deed..not of venereal sores or discolorations..not the privacy of the onanist..not of the putrid veins of glut- tons or rumdrinkers ... not peculation or cunning or ...
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... body and soul the same , and perceives the in- direct assuredly following the direct , and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again — and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or ...
... body and soul the same , and perceives the in- direct assuredly following the direct , and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again — and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or ...
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Leaves of Grass | 1 |
Afterword | 85 |
Reviews of the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass | 107 |
Ralph Waldo Emersons Letter to Walt Whitman | 161 |
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