Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Leaves of Grass
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 06/1981
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140421996
- Item number:
- 2176285
- Weight:
- 150 g
- Format:
- 195 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 10 mm
- Release date:
- 25.6.1981
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Leaves of Grass |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 59.90* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 79.90* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 9.18* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 79.90* |
Description
This is the original and complete 1855 edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, including Whitman's own introduction to the work.
Blurb
As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience.' Mr Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars, faithfully edited it, added his own introduction and Whitman's original introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman's life), and returned it to the common readership to whom the great poet really speaks.
Biography
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) war New Yorker: Geboren auf Long Island, wuchs er in Brooklyn auf und starb in Camden, New Jersey. Er arbeitete als Dorfschullehrer, Zimmermann, Schriftsetzer, Drucker, Journalist, Häusermakler, Sekretär im Innenministerium und als freiwilliger Lazaretthelfer während des Sezessionskriegs.
