Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Leaves of Grass. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanAs a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanAs a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259200659
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Excerpt from As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free: And Other Poems Tee impetus and ideas urging me, for some years past, to an utterance, or attempt at utterance, of New World songs, and an epic of Democracy, having already had their published expression, as well as I can expect to give it, in leaves or grass, the present and any future pieces from me are really but the surplusage forming after that Volume, or the wake eddying behind it. I fulfilled in that an imperious conviction, and the commands of my nature as total and irresistible as those which make the sen flow, or the globe revolve. But of this Supple mentary Volume, I confess I am not so certain. Having from early manhood abandoned the business pursuits and appli cations usual in my time and country, and obediently yielded myself up ever since to the impetus mentioned, and to the work of expressing those ideas, it may be that mere habit has got dominion of me, when there is no real need of saying any thing further. But what is life but an experiment? And mortality but an exer cise? With reference to results beyond. And so shall my poems be. If incomplete here, and superfluous there, n'impor te - the earnest trial and persistent exploration shall at least be mine, and other success failing, shall be success enough. I have been more anxious, anyhow, to suggest the songs of vital endeavor, and manly evolution, and furnish something for races of out door athletes, than to make perfect rhymes, or reign in the par lors. I ventured from the beginning, my own way, taking chances - and would keep on venturing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and Other Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879686673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanSongs of Democracy
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466854006
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A fully unexpurgated collection that restores the sexual vitality and subversive flair suppressed by Whitman himself in later editions of Leaves of Grass. A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over 200 poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's original punctuation. Included in this volume are facsimiles of Whitman's original manuscripts, contemporary - and generally blistering - reviews of Whitman's poetry (not surprisingly Henry James hated it), and early pre-Leaves of Grass poems that return us to the physical Whitman, rejoicing - sometimes graphically - in homoerotic love. Unlike the many other available editions, all drawn from the final authorized or "deathbed" Leaves of Grass, this collection focuses on the exuberant poems Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life, roughly between l853 and l860. These poems are faithfully presented as Whitman first gave them to the world - fearless, explicit and uncompromised - before he transformed himself into America's respectable, mainstream Good Gray Poet through 30 years of revision, self-censorship and suppression. Whitman admitted that his later poetry lacked the "ecstasy of statement" of his early verse. Revealing that ecstasy for the first time, this edition makes possible a major reappraisal of our nation first great poet.
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794440
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout his life, Walt Whitman continually revised and re-released Leaves of Grass. He added and deleted words, emended lines, divided poems, dropped and created titles, and shifted the order of poems. Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems includes all the variants that Whitman ever published, from the collection’s first appearance in 1855 through the posthumous “Old Age Echoes” annex printed in 1897. Each edition was unique, with its own character and emphasis, and the Textual Variorum enables scholars to follow the development of both the individual poems and the work as a whole. Volume I contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of all the editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. Volume II includes the poems from 1860 through 1867, including the first appearance of “When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d” and “O Captain! my Captain!” Volume III features the poems 1870–1891, plus the “Old Ages Annex” and an index to the three-volume set.