Song of Myself
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century Americ...
Leaves of Grass
Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets--an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman 'probably the greatest democrat that ever lived,' and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as 'the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.' The text presented here is that of the 'Deathbed' or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.
Leaves of Grass
"The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his mas...
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
Leaves Of Grass
The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience - was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world.
On the Beach at Night Alone
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and divers...
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the ...
Leaves of Grass
First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation,...
Leaves of Grass
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars? First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, 'Leaves...
Kamratskapskärlek
1860 satte poeten Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ihop två av sina viktigaste delar av Leaves of Grass: I "Adams barn" besjunger han den fria kärleken för båda könen och alla människors lika värde. I "Kalmus" besjunger han sin kärlek ...
Leaves of Grass
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 Macmilla...
Leaves of Grass
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as 'the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.' Over the course of Whitman's life, the book reappeared in many versions, expanded and transformed as the author's experiences and the nation's history changed and grew. Whitman's ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' and 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' to the joyous freedom of 'Song of Myself,' 'I Sing the Body Electric,' and 'Song of the Open Road,' Whitman's work lives on, an inspiration to the poets of later
Song of Myself
Song of myself
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
Demokratiska Perspektiv
Demokratiska perspektiv (1871) är en amerikansk klassiker som skänker djup och intresse för de demokratiska frågorna om och kring Amerikas förenta stater. Whitman är, som Amerikas store politiske poet, värd att uppmärksammas även som politisk aktör. Strax efter det amerikanska inbördeskriget, som ställde både USA och Whitman inför frågan om nationens och demokratins framtid, utgav han denna skrift, där han utvecklar sina tankar om samhället, demokratin, Amerika och litteraturen. I denna utgåva återfinns även en samling av Whitmans mest kända poesi med demokrati som tema eller underton. "Skriften "Demokratiska perspektiv" ger en ideologiskt genomlyst formulering av de demokratiska deal som uttrycks i Whitmans dikt. Som sådan är den läsvärd, och den svenska utgåvan är välkommen". (SvD)
Leaves of Grass
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully s...
Song of Myself
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 ...
Brooklynfärjans överfärd ; dikt och hågkomster
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" är en av Walt Whitmans (1819-1892) mest ikoniska dikter och blev en inspirationskälla för kommande generationers poeter. Denna rikt illustrerade utgåva tar läsaren med tillbaka till Brooklyn och New York vid 180...
Leaves of Grass
A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent almost four decades piecing together the complete work, sharing societal ideals and epiphanies about life that still resonate with readers today. This sturdy leather-bound edition of the complete Leaves of Grass also includes Whitman's preface to the original 1855 edition, in which he expounds on his personal philosophy of writing poetry.
Prose Works 1892: Volume I
A two-volume set which aims to prove that Whitman's prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.
Leaves of Grass
As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman...
Complete Poems
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual ...
Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps
Walt Whitman Speaks
The young journalist and reformer Horace Traubel visited Whitman nearly every day at his home in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman liked to talk, especially about the big issues, spiritual, political - all he'd learned over seven decades of peace and wa...
Memoranda During the War
In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with...
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the...
Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate
Not many people know that Walt Whitman-arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century-began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, ...