The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)

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• Used

  Paperback
  1978

  $5.85

  THE BEST AND MOST REPRESENTATIVE ONE-V0LUME EDITION OF WHITMAN EVER PUT TOGETHER - THE NEW YORKER.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $20.62

  When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the modern world. His poetry, which he continually revised and republished over the course of his life, broke new ground in its treatment of the individual, eroticism, mortality and the trauma of the Civil War and created a new, unfamiliar yet unabashedly American, voice for his country and his fellow people.