Leaves of Grass: Selected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library, 186) - Hardcover

Whitman, Walt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509887180 ISBN 13: 9781509887187

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2019

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

There is no one in this great wide world of America whom I love and honour so much (Oscar Wilde)

I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has ever produced (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman the one pioneer . . . Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none (D. H. Lawrence)

His [Whitman’s] Song of Himself was a song for humanity, too. And in spite of all that has happened since, it still echoes here (Independent)

Whitman had a fluid personality that made him able to “merge” invisibly, and with great empathy, with the images of other people and events that lodged in his mind . . . unprecedented assembling of rhythm, sound, language and images (New York Times)

Book Description:

A selection of Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking poetry edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1509887180
• ISBN 13: 9781509887187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304