Publication
Imprint: New York ; London : Norton, 1973. Context: Reprint of New York University Press, 1965 edition. Responsibility: Walt Whitman ; edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold William Blodgett. OCLC Number: 500392171. Physical: Text : 1 volume : lx, 1008 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. Features: Includes glossary, index.
Call number
Poetry / Whitm
ISBN
0393093883 / 9780393093889
Original publication date
1855
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CSS Library Notes
Description: Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life.Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading [Leaves of Grass], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be." -- publisher
Contents:
Authoritative texts --
Prefaces --
Whitman on his art --
Criticism.
FY1993
Contents:
Authoritative texts --
Prefaces --
Whitman on his art --
Criticism.
FY1993
Physical description
lx, 1008 p.; 22 cm
Description
This edition is based on the venerable Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass (1973), edited by the late Scully Bradley and Harold Blodgett.
Language
Original language
English
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LibraryThing member mewilbur
At one time this was probably the edition to own. Due to its excellent apparatus, it is still useful. However, its type is too small to read comfortably, and it is not printed on acid- free paper. Last time I looked Amazon Marketplace had copies for under a dollar. You would do better to spend more
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money and buy a more reader-friendly copy of this classic. I'm leaving this book unrated because I don't care much for sweaty poetry. Show Less