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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... persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors- the fluency of their speech ― their delight in music , the sure symp- tom of manly tenderness and native el- egance of soul ... their good temper and ...
... persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors- the fluency of their speech ― their delight in music , the sure symp- tom of manly tenderness and native el- egance of soul ... their good temper and ...
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... antiseptic of the soul ... it pervades the common people and pre- serves them ... they never give up believ- ing and expecting and trusting . There is that indescribable freshness and uncon- sciousness about an illiterate person Preface.
... antiseptic of the soul ... it pervades the common people and pre- serves them ... they never give up believ- ing and expecting and trusting . There is that indescribable freshness and uncon- sciousness about an illiterate person Preface.
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... person that humbles and mocks the power of the no- blest expressive genius . The poet sees for a certainty how one ... persons , drivers of horses , the passion for light and the open air , all is an old varied sign of the unfailing ...
... person that humbles and mocks the power of the no- blest expressive genius . The poet sees for a certainty how one ... persons , drivers of horses , the passion for light and the open air , all is an old varied sign of the unfailing ...
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... persons and with the young and with the mothers of fami- lies , read these leaves in the open air ev- ery season of every year of your life , re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book , dismiss what- ever ...
... persons and with the young and with the mothers of fami- lies , read these leaves in the open air ev- ery season of every year of your life , re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book , dismiss what- ever ...
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... person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not . Of the traits of the brotherhood of writ- ers savans musicians inventors and art- ists nothing is finer than silent defiance ...
... person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not . Of the traits of the brotherhood of writ- ers savans musicians inventors and art- ists nothing is finer than silent defiance ...
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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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