The present copy is unique among known signed copies both for its method of signature and for being in the first state (“A”) of the binding.Īn accompanying hand-written statement by F.W. Signed copies of the 1855 Leaves are a Very Great Rarity. Much has been said in praise of Whitman and his poetry over the years, but perhaps the most significant is that Leaves of Grass is the only work of modern poetry to be included in Printing and the Mind of Man (# 340, where it is called “America’s 2nd Declaration of Independence”). “The poet of the American Ideal,” Whitman pioneered a “transcendent and new” form of free verse poetry which brashly celebrated the self and the democratic perspective. “The Greatest Book Ever Given the World by an American Author.”Ī Revolution in World Literature, Leaves of Grass is the first work to explicitly mine the modern stream of consciousness. Original Cloth State “A” of the Binding some expert restoration to spine and several text leaves.
SIGNED BY WHITMAN IN PRINT LETTERS ON THE TITLE. A poet, dreamer, visionary and a thinker, He keeps brooding, dreaming, imagining and thinking About mankind in distress, pain and agony, A vagabond in life-style, a gipsy in his living, He is a poet of the common man, A nascent and united America and American states.WHITMAN, Walt. A poet of America, he sings of all those who have Contributed to human growth and development, Praising every dignity of labour Be any benefiting human race, Of shipmen, navigators, travellers, adventurers, Voyagers, sailors, soldiers, builders and architects. Starting from Song of Myself, he moves to A Song for Occupations, To Think of Time, The Sleepers, I Sing the Body Electric, Faces, Song of the Answerer, Europe: The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States, A Boston Ballad, There Was a Child Went Forth, Who Learns My Lessons Complete, Great Are the Myths. Bearded, unkempt, haired, mustached, Shabby and clumsy, A visionary lost in the dreams of his, Thinking of the shores and banks lying across Where he cannot, But the flight of imagination can. A poet of America, Americanness and Americanism, Whitman is one under the influence Of the American Brahmins Quite under the influences of the Hindu texts, I mean the American transcendentalists, Thoreau, Emerson and others. As Wordsworth went on adding and revising The Prelude, Similar the case with the text of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, The 1855 the original edition But the latter varying in degrees, Appending and modifying the same titles Which may not tally with. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass just like The Tennyson of In Memoriam, Plucking the blade of grass and piping As did he Tennyson In the memory of his friend And reflecting over faith and doubt as well.
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