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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... poet . No reminis- cences may suffice either . A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best ... poets . - As if it were neces- sary to trot back generation after genera- tion to the eastern records ! As if the beauty ...
... poet . No reminis- cences may suffice either . A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best ... poets . - As if it were neces- sary to trot back generation after genera- tion to the eastern records ! As if the beauty ...
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... poets shall . Of all man- kind the great poet is the equable man . Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their san- ity . Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad . He bestows ...
... poets shall . Of all man- kind the great poet is the equable man . Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their san- ity . Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad . He bestows ...
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... poetic in out- door people . They can 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 ...
... poetic in out- door people . They can 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 ...
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... 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 master the trust of ...
... 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 master the trust of ...
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... poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions ... he fi- nally ascends and finishes all ... he exhib- its the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond .... he glows a moment on the ...
... poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions ... he fi- nally ascends and finishes all ... he exhib- its the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond .... he glows a moment on the ...
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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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