1897 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass American Poetry SEXUALITY Scandal Romanticism

WHITMAN, Walter

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“Oh Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won.”

– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 

Walt Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon and is often called the father of free verse. His work, especially “Leaves of Grass”, was very controversial in its time due to its contents containing overt sexuality.

 

Published in 1897 by Putnam, this beautiful edition is bound in exquisite green leather. Some of the notable poems contained in this collection include:

  • I sing the Body Electric
  • A Woman Waits for Me
  • The Ship Starting
  • Laws for Creations
  • Children of Adam
  • Sands at Seventy
  • Good-bye My Fancy
  • Calamus

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1897 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass American Poetry SEXUALITY Scandal Romanticism

 

“Oh Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won.”

– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 

Walt Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon and is often called the father of free verse. His work, especially “Leaves of Grass”, was very controversial in its time due to its contents containing overt sexuality.

 

Published in 1897 by Putnam, this beautiful edition is bound in exquisite green leather. Some of the notable poems contained in this collection include:

  • I sing the Body Electric
  • A Woman Waits for Me
  • The Ship Starting
  • Laws for Creations
  • Children of Adam
  • Sands at Seventy
  • Good-bye My Fancy
  • Calamus

 

Item number: #13288

Price: $550

 

WHITMAN, Walter

 

Leaves of Grass

 

London: Putnam’s Sons, Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1897.

 

Details:

  • Collation: Complete with all pages
    • [6], 446, [2]
    • One engraved plate
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)

 

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13288

Category

Literature

Authors

WHITMAN, Walter

Printing Date

19th Century

Language

English

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete

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