Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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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 and Other Poems
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879686673
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Languages : en
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As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
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.
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanLeaves 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.
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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