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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... never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women . Other states indicate themselves in their deputies .... but the genius of the United States is ...
... never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women . Other states indicate themselves in their deputies .... but the genius of the United States is ...
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... never cease till it ceases or the speak- ing of tongues and the moving of lips cease . For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new . It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic . Its quality ...
... never cease till it ceases or the speak- ing of tongues and the moving of lips cease . For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new . It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic . Its quality ...
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... never be assisted by poets to perceive ... some may but they never can . The poetic quality is not mar- shalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts , but is the life of ...
... never be assisted by poets to perceive ... some may but they never can . The poetic quality is not mar- shalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts , but is the life of ...
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... never acknowledging any lessons but its own . But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other . The inmost secrets of art sleep ...
... never acknowledging any lessons but its own . But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other . The inmost secrets of art sleep ...
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... never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul . For the eternal tendencies of all toward hap- piness make the only point of sane phi- losophy . Whatever comprehends less than that ... whatever is less than the laws ...
... never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul . For the eternal tendencies of all toward hap- piness make the only point of sane phi- losophy . Whatever comprehends less than that ... whatever is less than the laws ...
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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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