(That this is still the case is richly demonstrated in the debacle of the last years of the Clinton administration, when the president famously gave a young White House intern a copy of Leaves of Grass as part of a process of seducing her, and the nation knew far more about the stain on her blue dress than most would have wished to know.) Walt Whitman’s personal copy of the 1860 Leaves, known as the 'Blue Book,' with hundreds of Whitman’s manuscript annotations, revisions, additions, and deletions.I do not think that the unsayable, in Whitman, partakes much of the first quality, though critics have argued that only a complex internal mechanism of repression could allow a poet to both proclaim a radical philosophy of sexual fellowship, especially same-sex coupling, as a basis for political change and expect that he would be absorbed by his country . . . This is indeed a shattering contradiction, but Whitman seems to have been acutely self-aware, and he surely knew that in America we cannot reconcile horniness and wisdom.Copy from the collection of Kenneth M.Copy from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.Variorum of Leaves of Grass (1855), documenting the manuscript origins of the first edition of Leaves of Grass and highlighting the differences among copies.Copy from the University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.

Permission to reuse any of the page images should be sought from the owner of the physical volume. Written, and Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman discusses these new In mind, however, that there have been numerous discoveries since these articles were Several excellent introductory articles from Walt Whitman: AnĮncyclopedia, edited by J. That work is done Ed Folsom's Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman can serve as an introduction to Whitman as both a writer and a producer of books as Textual histories for the various American editions of Leaves of Grass, but until To present additional printings of Leaves of Grass.

Technically speaking, this is not a distinctĮdition but is a reprinting of the 1881-82 edition with 'annexes.') As time allows, we plan The so-called deathbed edition of 1891-92. Editions of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman's lifetime.

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