Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856 (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, 8) - Softcover

Whitman, Walt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814794424 ISBN 13: 9780814794425

Publisher: NYU Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Sculley Bradley was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pennsylvania.

Harold W. Blodgett was Professor of English at Union College. Arthur Golden was Professor of English at City College at the City Univers

Arthur Golden was Professor of English at City College at the City University of New York.

William White was Professor and Director of the Journalism Program at Oakland University.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0814794424
• ISBN 13: 9780814794425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bradley Sculley, Blodgett Harold W., Golden Arthur, White William