"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 masterpiece "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature. Reprint of the First Edition, published by the author, Brooklyn, NY, 1855.
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman It was with this first version of "Song of Myself," from the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, that Whitman first made himself known to the world. Readers of revised editions will find this version surprising, and often superior.
Selected Poems by Walt Whitman Generous sampling from Leaves of Grass, including "I Hear America Singing," "Song of the Open Road," "I Sing the Body Electric," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain! My Captain!" and 19 more.
Civil War Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman Poems, letters and prose from the war years. "O Captain! My Captain!," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," many other letters and prose works.
Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure by The American Poetry & Literacy Project More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.
101 Great American Poems by The American Poetry & Literacy Project Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.
