Washington
Washington by Walt Whitman, published by NYU Press in June 2007, is a New Ed edition that spans 368 pages. This collection presents a comprehensive look at the writings of one of America’s most significant poets, featuring autobiographical notes, political reflections, and insights into Whitman’s education in various subjects, including ancient history and mythology.
Readers will find a rich array of material that includes Whitman’s experiences during the Civil War, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, and his observations from travels across the West and South. The book also delves into his thoughts on America’s challenges during the Reconstruction and Gilded Age, alongside personal reminiscences from his later years. Notably, many of these writings served as foundational sources for his poetry, with first drafts included, providing a unique glimpse into Whitman’s creative process.
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General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley
Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America’s most important poets.
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts gathers Whitman’s autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study. Included is material on his Civil War experiences, his love of Abraham Lincoln, his descriptions of various trips to the West and South and of the cities in which he resided, his generally pessimistic view of America’s prospects in the Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, and his reminiscences during his final years and his preoccupation with the increasing ailments that came with old age. Many of these notes served as sources for his poetry—first drafts of some of the poems are included as they appear in the notes—and as the basis for his lectures.
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