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The Portable Walt Whitman

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SKU:
810
Condition:
Good - Minimal, limited shelfwear to book cover. Tight binding. Clean, crisp and unmarked pages with the exception of the owner's name written on the inside front cover.
Format:
Paperback, 648 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books, 1977
Edition:
First Penguin Books Edition, Nineteenth Printing
After reading Leaves of Grass, Robert Louis Stevenson called it "a book which tumbled the world upside down for me." For many others, too, from Whitman's day to ours, this book has come as an epochal experience, as flushed with life and poetic quality now as then. Mark Van Doren's Portable Walt Whitman includes one hundred poems from Leaves of Grass, as well as two of Whitman's prose works in their entirety, Democratic Vistas and his wonderfully rambling reminiscences, Specimen Days. In addition, this volume contains a brief chronology and bibliographical checklist by Whitman biographer Gay Wilson Allen.

After reading Leaves of Grass, Robert Louis Stevenson called it "a book which tumbled the world upside down for me." For many others, too, from Whitman's day to ours, this book has come as an epochal experience, as flushed with life and poetic quality now as then. Mark Van Doren's Portable Walt Whitman includes one hundred poems from Leaves of Grass, as well as two of Whitman's prose works in their entirety, Democratic Vistas and his wonderfully rambling reminiscences, Specimen Days.  In addition, this volume contains a brief chronology and bibliographical checklist by Whitman biographer Gay Wilson Allen.

Editorial Review(s)

"The best and most representative one-volume edition of Whitman ever put together." --The New Yorker

About the Author

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.