Description: Beautiful edition. My parents were the original owners. The slipcover is a little worn and showing its age. The volumes inside it are pristine. From the slipcover: "During the last year of his life Walt Whitman prepared the final text of his writings in two volumes that became known as the Deathbed Edition (1891-92). These volumes, containing Whitman's complete poetry and prose works, are here reprinted in their entirety for the first time. Together with an introduction by one of America's foremost critics, the set is indispensable for the general reader as well as the student. "Malcolm Cowley's brilliant introduction is a restatement of Whitman's life and work in modern terms, without evasion or apology. He points out that Whitman's first great poems, including "The Song of Myself," were written when he was on the verge of becoming a sick personality, when he felt a brotherhood with all the diseased, the outcast and derelict of the earth. In rejecting the mythical figure of Whitman the shaggy-bearded sage of democracy and in penetrating the mask that hid a great and tortured spirit, Cowley has revealed the true poet who emerged from his inferno to become more a part of humanity."
Price: 175 USD
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Book Title: Prose And poetry Of Walt Whitman
Book Series: American Classics Series
Ex Libris: Yes
Item Length: 11.9in.
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Original Language: English
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1948
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6in.
Author: Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley
Features: Revised
Genre: Poetry
Topic: Poetry
Item Width: 10.4in.
Item Weight: 41.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
