Leaves of Grass

Produktbeschreibung

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett.

Whitman wrote about the United States and its people, its revolutionary spirit and about democracy. He wrote openly about the body and about desire in a way that completely broke with convention and which paved the way for a completely new kind of poetry. This new collection is taken from the final version, the Deathbed edition, and it includes his most famous poems such as 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric'. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Inscriptions Chapter - 1: To Foreign
Lands Chapter - 2: Song of Myself Chapter - 3: When I Read The Book Chapter - 4:
To The States Chapter - 4: Shut Not Your Doors Unit - 2: Children of Adam
Chapter - 1: I Sing the Body Electric Chapter - 2: A Woman Waits for Me Unit -
3: Calamus Chapter - 1: In Paths Untrodden Chapter - 2: Scented Herbage of my
Breast Chapter - 3: Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand Chapter - 4: For You
O Democracy Chapter - 5: The Base of All Metaphysics Chapter - 6: Recorders Ages
Hence Chapter - 7: When I Heard at the Close of Day Chapter - 8: Are You the New
Person Drawn toward Me Chapter - 9: I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Chapter - 10: To a Stranger Chapter - 11: This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
Chapter - 12: I Hear it was Charged Against Me Chapter - 13: When I Peruse the
Conquer'd Flame Chapter - 14: We Two Boys together Clinging Chapter - 15: No
Labor-Saving Machine Chapter - 16: A Glimpse Chapter - 17: What Think You I Take
Pen in Hand? Chapter - 18: Sometimes with One I Love Chapter - 19: Song of the
Open Road Chapter - 20: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Unit - 4: Birds of Passage
Chapter - 1: Pioneers! O Pioneers! Unit - 5: Sea Drift Chapter - 1: Out of the
Cradle Endlessly Rocking Unit - 6: By the Roadside Chapter - 1: When I Heard the
Learn'd Astronomer Unit - 7: Drum Taps Chapter - 1: Beat! Beat! Drums! Chapter -
2: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Chapter - 3: The Wound-Dresser
Chapter - 4: The Artilleryman's Vision Chapter - 5: O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
Chapter - 6: How Solemn as One by One Chapter - 7: As I Lay with My Head in Your
Lap Camerado Chapter - 8: Spirit Whose Work is Done Unit - 8: Memoirs of
President Lincoln Chapter - 1: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Chapter
- 2: O Captain! My Captain! Chapter - 3: Hush'd be the Camps To-day Chapter - 4:
By Blue Ontario's Shores Unit - 9: Autumn Rivulets Chapter - 1: There was a
Child went Forth Chapter - 2: The City Dead-House Chapter - 3: Passage to India
Chapter - 4: Prayer of Columbus Chapter - 5: The Sleepers Unit - 10: Whispers of
Heavenly Death Chapter - 1: A Noiseless Patient Spider Unit - 11: From Noon to
Starry Night Chapter - 1: The Mystic Trumpeter Unit - 12: Annex to Sands at
Seventy Chapter - 1: As I Sit Writing Here Chapter - 2: Queries to My Seventieth
Year Chapter - 3: Old Salt Kossabone Index - ii: Index of Poem Titles Index -
iii: Index of First Lines 

Kritik

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

Autoreninfo

Walt Whitman was born in Long Island on the 31st May 1819 to Walter Whitman, a carpenter and farmer, and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. Walt was one of eight siblings and was taken out of school at the age of eleven to start work, but he continued to read voraciously and visit museums. He worked first as a printer, then briefly as a teacher before settling on a career in journalism. He self-published the first version of Leaves of Grass, which consisted of only twelve poems, in 1855. By the time he died in 1892, and despite arousing considerable controversy, he enjoyed unprecedented international success and to this day is considered to be one of America's greatest poets.