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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Стр. vii
... death and fear can- not . To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth .... he saw them buried . The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and ...
... death and fear can- not . To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth .... he saw them buried . The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and ...
Стр. ix
... death , And of all terror and all pain . The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for en- couraging competitors..They shall be kos- mos..without monopoly or secresy..glad to pass any thing to any one..hungry ...
... death , And of all terror and all pain . The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for en- couraging competitors..They shall be kos- mos..without monopoly or secresy..glad to pass any thing to any one..hungry ...
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... death , nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality , nor in any process of forma- tion or reformation anywhere , a being whose instinct hated the truth . Extreme caution or prudence , the soundest organic health ...
... death , nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality , nor in any process of forma- tion or reformation anywhere , a being whose instinct hated the truth . Extreme caution or prudence , the soundest organic health ...
Стр. xiv
... death . The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today . If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides ..... and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on ...
... death . The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today . If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides ..... and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on ...
Стр. xv
... death ? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man , and a woman to be his perfect and inde- pendent mate ? Does it improve manners ? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic ? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk ...
... death ? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man , and a woman to be his perfect and inde- pendent mate ? Does it improve manners ? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic ? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk ...
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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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