Gathers the original 1855 edition of "Leaves of Grass," the 1891-92 edition--the last published in Whitman's lifetime--his writings on New York history and the Civil War, and other works, with a chronology and information on his work.
Writers in this book include Janet Kuypers, Catharine Wright, David McKenna, Sydney Anderson, Ray Heinrich, J. Speer, Michael McNeilley, Paul Glaze, Michael Estabrook, Carol Brown, Chuck Taylor, Peter Scott, Laurie Calhoun, Joseph Verrilli, ...
A collection that features some of his most popular poetry, such as "In the Clearing," "After Apple-Picking," "The Death of the Hired Man," and selections of his best prose work, much of it little known or previously unpublished.
My words in no particular order Denise M. Fuller. ~ In The Company of Stillness As I sit here alone by my windowsill the fluffy white cloudsareperfectly still As I sithere alone by my windowsill the birds on the fenceare standing still ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Toby Edition brings together the earliest and last editions of Leaves of Grass, together with other major works of the writer, including such seminal works as Song of Myself, I Sing the Body Electric, and Democratic Vistas.
Gathers lyric poems, satire, and essays about the German countryside and literature, by the nineteenth-century romantic poet.
Poetry and Prose