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Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
0393974960
ISBN-13:
9780393974966
Pub. Date:
03/07/2002
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0393974960
ISBN-13:
9780393974966
Pub. Date:
03/07/2002
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

Overview

This revised Norton Critical Edition contains the most complete and authoritative collection of Whitman's work available in a paperback student edition. The text of Leaves of Grass is again that of the indispensable "Reader's Comprehensive Edition," edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett, which is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. New to this edition is the full text of the celebrated 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass, as well as generous excerpts from Whitman's two prose masterpieces, Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days.

Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles.

While continuing to provide leading commentary on Whitman by major twentieth-century poets and critics, among them D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and Randall Jarrell, this revised edition adds important commentary by Whitman contemporaries Henry David Thoreau, Fanny Fern, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde, among others. An entirely new section of recent criticism includes six essays--by David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, John Irwin, Allen Grossman, Betsy Erkkila, and Michael Moon--that reflect both the continuing historicist mainstream of Whitman literary interpretation and influential recent work in gender and sexuality studies.

The volume also includes a Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393974966
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 03/07/2002
Series: Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 976
Sales rank: 532,690
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Michael Moon is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program for Women, Gender and Sexuality at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass, A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiations in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol, and editor of Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill.

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One's Self I Sing

One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.

Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.

Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.

As I Ponder'd in Silence

As I ponder'd in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,
Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
The genius of poets of old lands,
As to me directing like flame its eyes,
With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,
Know'st thou not there is hut one theme for ever-enduring bards?
And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
The making of perfect soldiers.

Be it so, then I answer'd.
I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the field the world,
For life and death., for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles,
I above all promote brave soldiers.

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Prefacexxi
Abbreviationsxxiii
Introductionxxvii
The Text of Leaves of Grass, 1891-1892
Epigraph: Come, said my Soul2
Inscriptions
One's-Self I Sing3
As I Ponder'd in Silence3
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea4
To Foreign Lands5
To a Historian5
To Thee Old Cause6
Eidolons6
For Him I Sing9
When I Read the Book9
Beginning My Studies9
Beginners10
To the States10
On Journeys through the States10
To a Certain Cantatrice11
Me Imperturbe11
Savantism12
The Ship Starting12
I Hear America Singing12
What Place Is Besieged?13
Still Though the One I Sing13
Shut Not Your Doors13
Poets to Come14
To You14
Thou Reader14
Starting from Paumanok15
Song of Myself26
Children of Adam
To the Garden the World78
From Pent-up Aching Rivers79
I Sing the Body Electric81
A Woman Waits for Me87
Spontaneous Me89
One Hour to Madness and Joy91
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd92
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals92
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd92
O Hymen! O Hymenee!93
I Am He That Aches with Love93
Native Moments94
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City94
I Heard you Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ95
Facing West from California's Shores95
As Adam Early in the Morning96
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden96
Scented Herbage of My Breast97
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand99
For You O Democracy100
These I Singing in Spring101
Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only102
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances103
The Base of All Metaphysics103
Recorders Ages Hence104
When I Heard at the Close of the Day105
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?105
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone106
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes106
Trickle Drops107
City of Orgies107
Behold This Swarthy Face108
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing108
To a Stranger109
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful109
I Hear It Was Charged against Me110
The Prairie-Grass Dividing110
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame110
We Two Boys Together Clinging111
A Promise to California111
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me112
No Labor-Saving Machine112
A Glimpse112
A Leaf for Hand in Hand113
Earth, My Likeness113
I Dreamed in a Dream113
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?114
To the East and to the West114
Sometimes with One I Love114
To a Western Boy115
Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!115
Among the Multitude115
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come116
That Shadow My Likeness116
Full of Life Now116
Salut au Monde!117
Song of the Open Road126
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry135
Song of the Answerer141
Our Old Feuillage145
A Song of Joys149
Song of the Broad-Axe155
Song of the Exposition165
Song of the Redwood-Tree173
A Song for Occupations177
A Song of the Rolling Earth184
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night189
Birds of Passage
Song of the Universal189
Pioneers! O Pioneers!192
To You195
France197
Myself and Mine198
Year of Meteors200
With Antecedents201
A Broadway Pageant203
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking206
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life212
Tears215
To the Man-of-War-Bird215
Aboard at a Ship's Helm216
On the Beach at Night217
The World Below the Brine218
On the Beach at Night Alone218
Song for All Seas, All Ships219
Patroling Barnegat220
After the Sea-Ship221
By the Roadside
A Boston Ballad221
Europe223
A Hand-Mirror225
Gods225
Germs226
Thoughts [Of ownership--]227
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer227
Perfections227
O Me! O Life!228
To a President228
I Sit and Look Out228
To Rich Givers229
The Dalliance of the Eagles229
Roaming in Thought230
A Farm Picture230
A Child's Amaze230
The Runner230
Beautiful Women231
Mother and Babe231
Thought [Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness]231
Visor'd231
Thought [Of Justice--]232
Gliding o'er All232
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour232
Thought [Of Equality--]232
To Old Age233
Locations and Times233
Offerings233
To the States: To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad233
Drum-Taps
First O Songs for a Prelude234
Eighteen Sixty-One236
Beat! Beat! Drums!237
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird238
Song of the Banner at Daybreak239
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps244
Virginia--The West246
City of Ships246
The Centenarian's Story247
Cavalry Crossing a Ford251
Bivouac on a Mountain Side252
An Army Corps on the March252
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame253
Come Up from the Fields Father253
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night255
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown256
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim257
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods258
Not the Pilot258
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me259
The Wound-Dresser259
Long, Too Long America261
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun262
Dirge for Two Veterans264
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice265
I Saw Old General at Bay266
The Artilleryman's Vision266
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors267
Not Youth Pertains to Me268
Race of Veterans268
World Take Good Notic269
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy269
Look Down Fair Moon269
Reconciliation270
How Solemn as One by One270
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado271
Delicate Cluster271
To a Certain Civilian272
Lo, Victress on the Peaks272
Spirit Whose Work Is Done273
Adieu to a Soldier273
Turn O Libertad274
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod275
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd276
O Captain! My Captain!284
Hush'd Be the Camps To-day285
This Dust Was Once the Man285
By Blue Ontario's Shore286
Reversals299
Autumn Rivulets
As Consequent, Etc.300
The Return of the Heroes301
There Was a Child Went Forth306
Old Ireland308
The City Dead-House308
This Compost309
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire311
Unnamed Lands313
Song of Prudence314
The Singer in the Prison316
Warble for Lilac-Time318
Outlines for a Tomb319
Out from behind This Mask321
Vocalism322
To Him That Was Crucified323
You Felons on Trial in Courts324
Laws for Creations325
To a Common Prostitute325
I Was Looking a Long While326
Thought [Of persons arrived at high positions]326
Miracles327
Sparkles from the Wheel328
To a Pupil328
Unfolded Out of the Folds329
What Am I After All330
Kosmos330
Others May Praise What They Like331
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?331
Tests332
The Torch333
O Star of France333
The Ox-Tamer334
An Old Man's Thought of School335
Wandering at Morn336
Italian Music in Dakota337
With All Thy Gifts337
My Picture-Gallery338
The Prairie States338
Proud Music of the Storm339
Passage to India345
Prayer of Columbus354
The Sleepers356
Transpositions364
To Think of Time364
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Darest Thou Now O Soul370
Whispers of Heavenly Death371
Chanting the Square Deific371
Of Him I Love Day and Night373
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours374
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me375
Assurances375
Quicksand Years376
That Music Always Round Me376
What Ship Puzzled at Sea377
A Noiseless Patient Spider377
O Living Always, Always Dying378
To One Shortly to Die378
Night on the Prairies379
Thought [As I sit with others at a great feast]380
The Last Invocation380
As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing381
Pensive and Faltering381
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood381
A Paumanok Picture386
From Noon to Starry Night
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling387
Faces388
The Mystic Trumpeter392
To a Locomotive in Winter395
O Magnet-South396
Mannahatta397
All is Truth398
A Riddle Song399
Excelsior400
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats401
Thoughts [Of public opinion]401
Mediums402
Weave in, My Hardy Life403
Spain, 1873-74403