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Leaves of Grass, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Leaves of Grass, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Walt Whitman
Creator: Michael Moon
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 reviews
Sales Rank: 324480

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 944
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.2

ISBN: 0393974960
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.3
EAN: 9780393974966
ASIN: 0393974960

Publication Date: March 15, 2002
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Condition: Some shelf wear on cover, pages in good condition. Ships promptly in a padded mailer w/ delivery confirmation.

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Product Description
This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles. "Criticism" collects 18 essays, 11 of which are new to this edition, including those by: Fanny Fern, Henry David Thoreau, Anne Gilchrist, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Michael Moon, John Irwin, Allen Grossman and Betsy Erikkila. A chronology and selected bibliography and an index of titles are included.


Customer Reviews:   Read 65 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars THE SOURCE of ALL American Prose/Poesy   November 27, 2008
Hemingway said all American writing comes from one book, Huck Finn. Wrong! He also believed himself a better writer than Fitzgerald. Wrong! I'm no literary expert, I haven't gone to Harvard or Yale or any of those overpriced universities for spoiled rich kids but in my expert opinion all American literature: rhythm, length, flow, syntax, form, etc., came from one book & this is it. Henry Miller was spot-on when he said America has only produced one great writer & that is Walt Whitman. Hemingway's style wasn't jacked from Stein or Anderson, well, maybe a bit from Anderson, so much as Whitman. Yeah, I know Bloom has drawn a connection between Hemingway & Whitman before, the repetition-ploy & all that, but what I'm telling you, if you'll forgive the trite cliche, there was poetry before Whitman & its wasn't the same after.
If you're short on time, forget Wordsworth or Keats or all those other `lazing the daisy breeze' 19th century knuckleheads, read this book & memorize some quotes (to impress people at office holiday parties).
Yes, I do believe this is the same book Clinton gave Lewinsky for her birthday. Wonder if there were any stains on it?



5 out of 5 stars The original lean, bursting on the scene, Whitman   June 7, 2008
4 1/2 stars, really, but we can't do that. This is the original 1855 version. Whitman added to the collection throughout his life, ending up with an overstuffed and very uneven "deathbed" version, which is better known. There are some good poems in it which aren't in the original, such as When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd, but there's a lot of pretty weak stuff, too. The 1855 has a small number of pretty consistently excellent poems which are highly original and loosely but definitely connected. Reading it is a very different experience from wading through the bloated, inconsistent final version - there's something Whitmanesque (i.e., at it's best) about the original collection as a unit. Malcolm Cowley's introduction is also a bit wild and wooly (written in the late 60s or early 70s), but interesting and enlightening.


2 out of 5 stars Not the 1855   May 25, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

At least as available for the Kindle, this is not the 1855 edition. It seems to be the final edition, which is of course great, but not what I intended to get based on the product description posted. Also, the foreward and afterward mentioned in the description are missing. I don't expect the moon for a low price, but I do expect to get what I pay for.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent edition of Whitman's Masterwork   April 15, 2008
Choosing the fullest, most complete version of Whitman's text, before the final editing of the deathbed edition, but following the additions made after the Civil War, the Norton Critical is a must have for students of poetry, or literature, and of nature. The wild, ecstatic hunger for the world, the ravishment of the senses, as Norman Mailer put it (though not about Whitman), the mysticism of the flesh, Whitman is, arguably, the most accomplished poet of American letters.

A must read for poets, students, and pagans (Whitman as spirit of the Green Man himself!).



1 out of 5 stars A looser   March 7, 2008
 1 out of 7 found this review helpful

I bought this and returned it. There must be someone out there with the right voice and reading skills to bring us Whitman's words and rhythms. Ms. Gibson's soprano sing-song doesn't make it.

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