Walter Whitman (279 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. This volume introduces young readers to Walt Whitman's most famous poems, including "On the Beach at Night", "The Runaway Slave", extracts from "Leaves of Grass" and "I Sing the Body Electric". It includes a biography of Whitman, reader's notes and difficult word definitions. Burke, Jim (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This volume introduces young readers to Walt Whitman's most famous poems, including "On the Beach at Night", "The Runaway Slave", extracts from "Leaves of Grass" and "I Sing the Body Electric". It includes a biography of Whitman, reader's notes and difficult word definitions. Burke, Jim (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Today Walt Whitman is regarded as one of America's greatest poets, and it is difficult to believe that this work was so badly received when it first appeared. This edition reproduces the 1891-2 text and includes Whitman's preface to the 1855 edition.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The author finds miracles everywhere--in nature, on city streets, and at home.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The author finds miracles everywhere--in nature, on city streets, and at home.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In late 1862, at the height of the Civil War, the poet and former newspaperman Walt Whitman traveled to a Virginia base camp in search of his wounded brother. The unattended misery he found--rows of unburied corpses, piles of amputated limbs, wounded men lying on the frozen ground--moved him to a profound conviction of necessity that he had to help relieve it. Whitman spent the next four years, at great personal and professional sacrifice, working as a voluntary nurse at military hospitals in the frontline capital of Washington, tending the sick and wounded well past the war's end. The Sacrificial Year is Walt Whitman's story of his involvement in the Civil War, and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisis. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences--a fact he later regretted-- but he did write hundreds of letters, newspaper articles, and memoranda. While many of these works have been published individually, editor John Harmon McElroy is the first to select and arrange Whitman's prose writings on the war in chronological sequence--including previously unpublished extracts from his recently discovered Civil War notebook--thereby reconstructing a continuous narrative of his month-to-month experience in his own words. Poignant and powerful, encompassing all the horror and scope of that immense conflict, Walt Whitman's war chronicles are among the essential documents of those crucial years. This edition contains nearly 300 entries, and is further enhanced with over 50 compelling period photographs of the places, people, and events that Whitman captured so vividly in his prose.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems.Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter.Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now a classic of American poetry, was condemned as immoral upon publication. Included in this edition are some of the greatest poems of modern times, works that continue to upset conventional notions of beauty and originality even today.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems.Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter.Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now a classic of American poetry, was condemned as immoral upon publication. Included in this edition are some of the greatest poems of modern times, works that continue to upset conventional notions of beauty and originality even today.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This volume introduces young readers to Walt Whitman's most famous poems, including "On the Beach at Night", "The Runaway Slave", extracts from "Leaves of Grass" and "I Sing the Body Electric". It includes a biography of Whitman, reader's notes and difficult word definitions. Burke, Jim (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. This volume introduces young readers to Walt Whitman's most famous poems, including "On the Beach at Night", "The Runaway Slave", extracts from "Leaves of Grass" and "I Sing the Body Electric". It includes a biography of Whitman, reader's notes and difficult word definitions. Burke, Jim (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Today Walt Whitman is regarded as one of America's greatest poets, and it is difficult to believe that this work was so badly received when it first appeared. This edition reproduces the 1891-2 text and includes Whitman's preface to the 1855 edition.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The author finds miracles everywhere--in nature, on city streets, and at home.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The author finds miracles everywhere--in nature, on city streets, and at home.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In late 1862, at the height of the Civil War, the poet and former newspaperman Walt Whitman traveled to a Virginia base camp in search of his wounded brother. The unattended misery he found--rows of unburied corpses, piles of amputated limbs, wounded men lying on the frozen ground--moved him to a profound conviction of necessity that he had to help relieve it. Whitman spent the next four years, at great personal and professional sacrifice, working as a voluntary nurse at military hospitals in the frontline capital of Washington, tending the sick and wounded well past the war's end. The Sacrificial Year is Walt Whitman's story of his involvement in the Civil War, and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisis. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences--a fact he later regretted-- but he did write hundreds of letters, newspaper articles, and memoranda. While many of these works have been published individually, editor John Harmon McElroy is the first to select and arrange Whitman's prose writings on the war in chronological sequence--including previously unpublished extracts from his recently discovered Civil War notebook--thereby reconstructing a continuous narrative of his month-to-month experience in his own words. Poignant and powerful, encompassing all the horror and scope of that immense conflict, Walt Whitman's war chronicles are among the essential documents of those crucial years. This edition contains nearly 300 entries, and is further enhanced with over 50 compelling period photographs of the places, people, and events that Whitman captured so vividly in his prose.…

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems.Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter.Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now a classic of American poetry, was condemned as immoral upon publication. Included in this edition are some of the greatest poems of modern times, works that continue to upset conventional notions of beauty and originality even today.…