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Excerpt from The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, Vol. 7Hexameter - ih ancient poetry a verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, the sixth always a spondee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses sta...

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This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Ro...

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Rare essays and verses by the 70-year-old poet include reflections on the genesis of Leaves of Grass, "Slang in America, " "What Lurks Behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays, " "The Old Bowery, " and more.

Large format paper back for easy reading. The major works of the 'greatest American poet'.

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Whitman's 1870 collection of poems including not only Passage to India but many Civil war poems, main selections from Leaves of Grass, and other collections. This is Whitman's famous poem-sequence, now back in print after many years.This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries.

Since 1855, Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American. This "Routledge" "Literary Sourcebook" provides easy access to: *contextual information, including biographical details and a chronology *an overview of the poem's critical reception and extracts ...

It was with this inspired, oceanic medley, "Song of Myself" (which in the first editions of "Leaves of Grass" was still nameless), that Walt Whitman first made himself known to the world. Readers will find this first version of "Song of Myself" new, surprising, and often superior to the later versions and exhilarating in the freshness of its vision.

Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art, " a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide leading commentary on Whitman by major twentieth-century poets and critics, among them D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and Randall Jarrell, this revised edition adds important commen...

Poems, letters, and prose from the war years include "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, " "Adieu to a Soldier, " and many other moving works.