Selected Poems

    Selected Poems

    By Walt Whitman

    $5.00

    Publication Date: 1st May 1991

    In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature.
    This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses. Featured works include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Bod... Read More
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    In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature.
    This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses. Featured works include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Bod... Read More
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    In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature.
    This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses. Featured works include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" — all reprinted from an authoritative text.

    Reprinted from an authoritative text.
    Details
    • Price: $5.00
    • Pages: 128
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    • Publication Date: 1st May 1991
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486268781
    • Format: Paperback
    • Age: 14-99
    • BISACs:
      POETRY / American / General
    Author Bio
    One of America's most influential and innovative poets, Walt Whitman (1819–92) worked as a teacher, journalist, and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. Proclaimed as the nation's first "poet of democracy," Whitman reached out to common readers and opposed censorship with his overt celebrations of sexuality
    Table of Contents
    "FROM THE SECTION "Inscriptions"
      I Hear America Singing
    Starting from Paumanok
    "FROM THE SECTION "Children of Adam"
      I Sing the Body Electric
      Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
    "FROM THE SECTION "Calamus"
      Recorders Ages Hence
      I Hear It Was Charged against Me
    Salut au Monde!
    Song of the Open Road
    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
    Song of the Broad-Axe
    Song of the Redwood-Tree
    A Song for Occupations
    A Song of the Rolling Earth
    "FROM THE SECTION "Birds of Passage"
      Pioneers! O Pioneers!
    "FROM THE SECTION " Sea-Drift"
      Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
    "FROM THE SECTION "Drum-Taps"
      Beat! Beat! Drums!
      The Wound-Dresser
    "FROM THE SECTION "Memories of President Lincoln"
      When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
      O Captain! My Captain!
    By Blue Ontario's Shore
    Passage to India
    Prayer of Columbus
    "FROM THE SECTION "Whispers of Heavenly Death"
      A Noiseless Patient Spider
    "FROM THE SECTION "Songs of Parting"
      So Long!
    In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature.
    This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses. Featured works include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" — all reprinted from an authoritative text.

    Reprinted from an authoritative text.
    • Price: $5.00
    • Pages: 128
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    • Publication Date: 1st May 1991
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486268781
    • Format: Paperback
    • Age: 14-99
    • BISACs:
      POETRY / American / General
    One of America's most influential and innovative poets, Walt Whitman (1819–92) worked as a teacher, journalist, and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. Proclaimed as the nation's first "poet of democracy," Whitman reached out to common readers and opposed censorship with his overt celebrations of sexuality
    "FROM THE SECTION "Inscriptions"
      I Hear America Singing
    Starting from Paumanok
    "FROM THE SECTION "Children of Adam"
      I Sing the Body Electric
      Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
    "FROM THE SECTION "Calamus"
      Recorders Ages Hence
      I Hear It Was Charged against Me
    Salut au Monde!
    Song of the Open Road
    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
    Song of the Broad-Axe
    Song of the Redwood-Tree
    A Song for Occupations
    A Song of the Rolling Earth
    "FROM THE SECTION "Birds of Passage"
      Pioneers! O Pioneers!
    "FROM THE SECTION " Sea-Drift"
      Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
    "FROM THE SECTION "Drum-Taps"
      Beat! Beat! Drums!
      The Wound-Dresser
    "FROM THE SECTION "Memories of President Lincoln"
      When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
      O Captain! My Captain!
    By Blue Ontario's Shore
    Passage to India
    Prayer of Columbus
    "FROM THE SECTION "Whispers of Heavenly Death"
      A Noiseless Patient Spider
    "FROM THE SECTION "Songs of Parting"
      So Long!