Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892
By Walt Whitman
Length17h 55m
About this audiobook
This carefully crafted ebook: "Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman. Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. Whitman was intentional in not organizing the book in any chronological way. Instead, he was concerned with the journey of the poetry. He desired that the reader would see a self formed through the words and themes of the book. He writes poems of a political, social, personal, and sexual nature, all ideas that he will elaborate on in later sections. Walt Whitman published and designed The First Edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. The edition included twelve untitled poems, which were named in later editions. He included no mention of the author, only his name on the copyright and in one line of the first poem, which is later titled "Song of Myself". Whitman's final edition, the 1891-92 edition, also known as "The Deathbed Edition," is simply grammatical corrections of the 1881 edition, and the addition of "November Boughs" as a supplement, "Good-Bye my Fancy" as a second supplement, and "A Backward Glance O'er Travell'd Roads" as the closing essay. Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
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Publish dateNov 10, 2013
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Table of contents
1Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892
26Beginners
2Preface
27To the States
3Song of Myself (1855)
28On Journeys Through the States
4A Song for Occupations (1855)
29To a Certain Cantatrice
5To Think of Time (1855)
30Me Imperturbe
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6The Sleepers (1855)
31Savantism
7I Sing the Body Electric (1855)
32The Ship Starting
8Faces (1855)
33I Hear America Singing
9Song of the Answerer (1855)
34What Place Is Besieged?
10Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States (1855)
35Still Though the One I Sing
11A Boston Ballad (1855)
36Shut Not Your Doors
12There Was a Child Went Forth (1855)
37Poets to Come
13Who Learns My Lesson Complete (1855)
38To You
14Great Are the Myths (1855)
39Thou Reader
15BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
40BOOK II: Starting from Paumanok
16One’s-Self I Sing
41BOOK III: Song of Myself
17As I Ponder’d in Silence
42BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
18In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
43To the Garden the World
19To Foreign Lands
44From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
20To a Historian
45I Sing the Body Electric
21To Thee Old Cause
46A Woman Waits for Me
22Eidolons
47Spontaneous Me
23For Him I Sing
48One Hour to Madness and Joy
24When I Read the Book
49Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
25Beginning My Studies
50Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
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