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Leaves of grass and selected poems and prose / Walt Whitman ; [editor Peter Coviello].

by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

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New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

9780143107439 (hardcover) :

0143107437 (hardcover)

Penguin drop caps.

xiii, 269 pages ; 20 cm.

Penguin drop caps edition.

Poems from leaves of grass. 1855. Song of myself ; A song for occupations ; To think of time ; The sleepers ; I sing the body electric ; Faces ; Song of the answerer ; Europe: the 72d and 73d years of these states ; A Boston ballad ; There was a child went forth ; Who learns my lesson complete? ; Great are the myths -- 1856. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; Spontaneous me -- 1860. From pent-up aching rivers ; Calamus ; To a common prostitute ; Mannahatta -- 1865-66. Drum-taps [1865] and sequel to drum-taps [1865-66] -- 1867. Small the theme of my chant ; A noiseless patient spider --1888. As I sit writing here -- 1891. Good-bye my fancy! -- Prose. Preface to Leaves of Grass [1855] ; From Specimen Days ; From Memoranda During the War.

"This volume reprints the whole of the initial, 1855 version of Leaves of grass (with titles and section numbers, as they would appear in later editions, supplied in brackets). Added, too, are a handful of poems from across the length of Whitman's career--these taken from the 1891-92 "Deathbed edition," though arranged chronologically--and selected prose pieces"--Page xiii.

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