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Contains the first and deathbed editions of Leaves of Grass, and virtually all of Whitmans prose, with reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and glimpses of President Lincoln, and attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the war.
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Leaves of Grass (1855) Leaves of Grass (189192) Complete Prose Works (1892) Supplementary Prose
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Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright 1982 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984.
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam Inc. and in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd.
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 81-20768 For Cataloging in Publication Data, see end of volume. ISBN 0-940450-02-X
Fourteenth Printing
The Library of America3
Manufactured in the United States of America
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JUSTIN KAPLAN WROTE THE NOTES AND CHRONOLOGY AND SELECTED THE CONTENTS FOR THIS VOLUME
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The publishers wish to thank the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress for their assistance.
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CONTENTS
Each section has its own table of contents.
Leaves of Grass (1855)
1
Leaves of Grass (189192)
147
Complete Prose Works (1892)
673
Supplementary Prose
1303
Chronology
1347
Note on the Texts
1352
Notes
1355
Poetry Title Index
1360
Index of First Lines
1370
Page 1
LEAVES OF GRASS [1855]
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Contents
These poems had no titles in 1855, and no titles appear in the text of the present edition. Whitman eventually gave the poems the titles shown here.
"Preface"
5
"Song of Myself"
27
"A Song for Occupations"
89
"To Think of Time"
100
"The Sleepers"
107
"I Sing the Body Electric"
118
"Faces"
125
"Song of the Answerer"
129
"Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States"
133
"A Boston Ballad"
135
"There Was a Child Went Forth"
138
"Who Learns My Lesson Complete"
140
"Great Are the Myths"
142
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America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . accepts the lesson with calmness is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house perceives that it waits a little while in the door that it was fittest for its days that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches and that he shall be fittest for his days.
The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women.
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