Ebook {Epub PDF} Leaves of Grass: First and Death-Bed Editions by Walt Whitman

 · Leaves of Grass First and "Death-Bed" Editions. Walt Whitman. $; $; Publisher Description. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman. Though the first edition was published in , Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. Whitman was intentional in not organizing the book in any chronological way. Instead, he was concerned with the journey of the poetry/5(50).  · Leaves of Grass (Barnes Noble Classics Series) First and "Death-Bed" Editions By Walt Whitman (Author), Karen Karbiener (Introduction), Karen Karbiener (Editor), Karen Karbiener (Introduction and notes).

Leaves of Grass. "AMERICA'S SECOND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE": RARE FIRST EDITION OF WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS, THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL VOLUME OF AMERICAN POETRY—A BEAUTIFUL COPY. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Quarto, original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered title, blindstamped triple-rule. When Leaves of Grass was first published in as a slim tract of twelve untitled poems, Walt Whitman was still an unknown. But his self-published volume soon became a landmark of poetry, introducing the world to a new and uniquely American form. The "father of free verse," Whitman drew upon the cadence of simple, even idiomatic speech to "sing" such themes as democracy, sexuality, and frank. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, unknown edition, in English - Comprehensive reader's ed., including the annexes, the prefaces, A backward glance o'er travel'd roads, Old age echoes, the excluded poems and fragments, and the uncollected poems and fragments.

Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short, early versions, this Modern Library Paperback Classics “Death-bed” edition presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form, and includes newly commissioned notes. Walt Whitman added some lines, many lines, and changing words in some lines, and the book became larger. In order to compare the lines with the other editions, and to study the meaning of his rewriting those poems, this First Edition of and The Death Bed Edition of are essential. Read more. From Karen Karbiener’s Introduction to Leaves of Grass: First and "Death-Bed" Editions.