Full Description
This compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses, collects a substantial selection of Whitman's poems. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, the 1855 text of the poem later titled 'Song of Myself,' the complete 'Live Oak, with Moss' sequence, numerous selections from the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, and several samples of Whitman's early and late prose. The appendices include nineteenth-century reviews of Leaves of Grass, a selection of illustrations showing Whitman's design choices for various editions of the book, and numerous portraits of Whitman. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature. The series is designed to make selections from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts; each edition features an introduction and explanatory footnotes, and is designed to meet the needs of today's students.
This edition departs from most other editions in the series in one important respect-its format. The large page size of the edition facilitates the reading of Whitman's long lines of verse.
Contents
IntroductionSelected Poetry
from 1855 Leaves of Grass
[Preface]
[Song of Myself]
from 1881 Leaves of Grass
from Inscriptions
One's Self I Sing
from Children of Adam
I Sing the Body Electric
A Woman Waits for Me
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
from Calamus
8 [Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me]
9 [Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted]
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
For You O Democracy
Recorders Ages Hence
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
City of Orgies
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
To a Stranger
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
A Glimpse
A Leaf for Hand in Hand
Earth, My Likeness
I Dream'd in a Dream
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
To a Western Boy
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the Redwood Tree
from Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
The World Below the Brine
from By the Roadside
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
I Sit and Look Out
The Dalliance of the Eagles
A Farm Picture
The Runner
from Drum-Taps
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
The Wound-Dresser
Long, Too Long America
Reconciliation
As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
from Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
O Captain! My Captain!
This Dust Was Once the Man
Hush'd Be the Camps To-day
from Autumn Rivulets
This Compost
The Sleepers
Live Oak, with Moss
Selected Prose
Dumb Kate—An Early Death
Brooklyn Daily Eagle editorials
Shall We Fight It Out? (11 May 1846)
from Our Territory on the Pacific (7 July 1846)
from Democratic Vistas
from Specimen Days
Two Brooklyn Boys
The Wounded from Chancellorsville
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
The Real War Will Never Get In the Books
from November Boughs
Negro Slaves in New York
Paying the 1st USCT
New Orleans in 1848
In Context
1855 Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself]
Whitman's Correspondence with Emerson
Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Leaves of Grass
The Design of Leaves of Grass, 1855-60
Portraits of Whitman
