Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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  • Whitman: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

    • ASIN: 0679436324
    • ISBN: 0679436324
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

    The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of Myself," "I Hear America Singing," "Halcyon Days," and an index of first lines.

  • The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140424512
    • ISBN: 9780140424515
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    From Leaves of Grass to "Song of Myself," all of Whitman's poetry in one volumeIn 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what i... [Read More]

  • Complete Poems of Whitman (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

    • ASIN: 1853264334
    • ISBN: 9781853264337
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

    Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking. Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no prev... [Read More]

  • The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser, Letters

    • ASIN: B00IMJ9JB2
    • Manufacturer: Bybliotech

    Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the greats of American literature, despite causing great controversy in his own era, due to the apparent 'obscenity' of his works – in particular for his poetic masterpiece “Leaves of Grass”.This huge collection contains ALL of Walt Whitman's works – both poetry and prose. These have been separated... [Read More]

  • Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 094045002X
    • ISBN: 094045002X
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    This Library of America edition is the biggest and best edition of Walt Whitman's writings ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial fai... [Read More]

  • Walt Whitman: Words for America (New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books (Awards))

    • ASIN: 0439357918
    • ISBN: 0439357918
    • Brand: Scholastic Press
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

    Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers--Union and Confederate, black and white. By getting to know them through many intense and affecting experiences, he began to see a greater life purpose: His writing could g... [Read More]

  • Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)

    • ASIN: 0393974960
    • ISBN: 9780393974966
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    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 expla... [Read More]

  • Essential Whitman (Essential Poets)

    • ASIN: 0060887923
    • ISBN: 9780060887926
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    From the introduction by Galway Kinnell: The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense. . . . Soon I understood that poetry could... [Read More]

  • Drum Taps: The Complete Civil War Poems

    • ASIN: 1604335947
    • ISBN: 1604335947
    • Brand: Cider Mill Press
    • Manufacturer: Cider Mill Press

    A stunning and elegant 150th Anniversary Edition of Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems, accompanied by moving photographs and artwork shedding new light on this tragic but significant chapter in American history. Drum Taps is the complete Civil War poem collection by Walt Whitman, including the celebrated Oh, Captain, My Captain!, and augment... [Read More]

  • Song of Myself: The First and Final Editions of the Great American Poem

    • ASIN: 1484884493
    • ISBN: 1484884493
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    This book compiles both the first (1855) and final (1892) versions of Walt Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of Myself," in one volume, allowing readers to see how Whitman developed the poem over time.The Kindle e-book is FREE when you buy the paperback. (Applies to the American Renaissance Books edition only.)

  • Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary (Iowa Whitman Series)

    • ASIN: B01M0MDMW0
    • Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press

    This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation’s most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to e... [Read More]

  • Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition

    • ASIN: 1449505716
    • ISBN: 1449505716
    • Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems--but none matched the raw power and immediacy of the first edition.This beautifully-designed volume presents the original edition Leaves of Grass ... [Read More]

  • Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (150th Anniversary Edition)

    • ASIN: 0195183428
    • ISBN: 0195183428
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    As featured in AMC's Breaking Bad, given by Gale Boetticher to Walter White and discovered by Hank Schrader."I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass."So begins Leaves of Grass, the first g... [Read More]

  • Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals, 1863-1865 (Dover Books on Americana)

    • UPC: 800759476411
    • ASIN: 0486476413
    • ISBN: 0486476413
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in a newspaper list of Union Army casualties. The poet hurried from his Brooklyn home to a Virginia battlefront, where he found his brother, wounded but recovering. Profoundly moved by his experiences in... [Read More]

  • Walt Whitman: A Gay Life

    • ASIN: 0525943730
    • ISBN: 0525943730
    • Brand: Brand: Dutton Adult
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Adult

  • Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759406463
    • ASIN: 0486406466
    • ISBN: 0486406466
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.You’ll find more than 90 poems by 50 American and British mas... [Read More]

  • Essential Walt Whitman CD (Caedmon Essentials)

    • ASIN: 0061566411
    • ISBN: 0061566411
    • Brand: Caedmon
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

    One Great Author. One Great CD.A poem by Whitman may be whoops and hollers, or beating of drums, or the ebb of the tide singing to itself among the stones, or laments in the night or cries of ecstasy. Indeed, Whitman was the wind which blew poetry from its moorings in tradition and sent it into fresher waters; his poems celebrating the grandness of... [Read More]

  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

    • ASIN: 0815318766
    • ISBN: 0815318766
    • Brand: Routledge
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, Jr., Roger Asselineau, Betsy Erkkila, and Joel Myerson. Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume comprises more than 750 entries arra... [Read More]

  • Song of Myself: And Other Poems by Walt Whitman

    • ASIN: 1582435715
    • ISBN: 1582435715
    • Brand: Brand: Counterpoint
    • Manufacturer: Counterpoint

    Walt Whitman was deeply interested in the American language as it was emerging in his time. He was fascinated by the vocabularies of the sciences and the streets, and was a regular visitor to the New York Public Library, where he loved to peer into the provenience of the words he overheard and read. In this beautiful book, Robert Hass and Paul Eben... [Read More]

  • Civil War Poetry and Prose (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759285075
    • ASIN: 0486285073
    • ISBN: 0486285073
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand, working, in his forties, as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb selection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights and sounds of war and its ugly aftermath, express a... [Read More]

  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

    Leaves of Grass - Book 1 - Poems of Walt Whitman - FULL Audio Book - Poetry

    O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (read by Tom O'Bedlam)