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1	Leaves of Grass more books like this by Walt Whitman add to wishlist LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's monumental and enormously influential book, was his life's work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous "deathbed edition" published the year he died (1892). Influenced by Eastern religions, his years as a journalist, the Civil War, 19th-century expansionism, Nature, the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography more books like this by David S Reynolds add to wishlist This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time--considers the full range of writings by and about Whitman, his early poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks. "A remarkably informative ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £11.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Walt Whitman: A Life more books like this by Justin Kaplan add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize winner Kaplan offers a moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet, an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-19th-century America. Two 16-page photo inserts. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Memoranda During the War more books like this by Walt Whitman add to wishlist In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of ... see all copies from £6.35! new only from £6.86! \| first editions
5	Song of myself more books like this by W Whitman add to wishlist The classic book of verse by one of America's greatest poets. First published in 1855, "Leaves of Grass" was subsequently revised and edited by Whitman many times. Editor Stephen Mitchell has returned to the earliest edition, which he maintains best captured the vigor and freshness of Whitman's style. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
6	Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman more books like this by Thom Tammaro (Editor), Sheila Coghill (Editor), Ed Folsom (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Poets to come! Arouse! For you must justify me!" Answering the challenge that Whitman issued nearly 150 years ago, this book has gathered together 100 poems by 100 poets, bearing witness to Whitman's enormous influence on American and global literature. see all copies from £6.97! new only from £7.40! \| first editions
7	A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman more books like this by David S Reynolds (Editor) add to wishlist Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual ... see all copies from £6.18! new only from £17.02! \| first editions
8	Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War more books like this by Robert Roper add to wishlist Drawing on the searing letters that Walt Whitman, his brother George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers wrote to each other during the Civil War, this work chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation. see all copies from £7.12! new only from £7.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Leaves of Grass more books like this by Whitman Walt Whitman add to wishlist Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent ... see all copies from £1.83! new only from £14.23! \| first editions
10	With Walt Whitman in Camden. more books like this by Horace Traubel add to wishlist see all copies from £4.93! new only from £14.99! \| first editions
11	Leaves of Grass: Authoritative Texts, Prefaces, Whitman on His Art, Criticism more books like this by Walt Whitman, Harold W Blodgett (Editor), E Sculley Bradley (Editor) add to wishlist LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's monumental and enormously influential book, was his life's work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous "deathbed edition" published the year he died (1892). Influenced by Eastern religions, his years as a journalist, the Civil War, 19th-century expansionism, Nature, the ... see all copies from £5.27!
12 view cover	Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition more books like this by Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (Editor) add to wishlist Since 1855, Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook provides easy access to: contextual information, including ... see all copies from £4.12! new only from £14.72!
13 view cover	Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass more books like this by Martin Klammer add to wishlist An examination of the way in which Walt Whitman's emergence as a great and original poet owed much to his political thinking about the slavery question. Klammer argues that Whitman's attitudes towards slavery were central to the development of the 1855 edition of "Leaves of Grass". see all copies from £5.89! new only from £7.20! \| first editions
14	The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman more books like this by Ron Padgett (Editor) add to wishlist Fifteen poets have created this first and only guide to teaching Wait Whitman from kindergarten to college level, with practical ideas for reading Whitman and writing poetry and prose inspired by him. Also included are three pieces on education by Whitman himself and a discussion of Whitman as teacher. A resources section describes good materials ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.96!
15 view cover	Walt Whitman more books like this by Catherine Reef add to wishlist A biography of the American poet, which places him and his poetry in the context of American history. Black-and-white photographs accompany the text. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £4.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Self Storage more books like this by Gayle Brandeis add to wishlist RPeppered with wry wit and Walt Whitman, "Self Storage" is a skillfully told treasure hunter's tale of compassion, coming of age, and, most importantly, transforming the life you've got into the life you want.S--Maria Dahvana Headley, author of "The Year of Yes." see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism more books like this by Edward S Cutler add to wishlist An innovative look at the process and development of nineteenth-century modernism. see all copies from £6.04! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
18 view cover	Walt Whitman a Study more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist 1893. With portrait and four illustrations. A study of Walt Whitman, who is considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, by Symonds who, himself, was in the forefront of the bourgeois radical men and women with socialist ideals who were destined to reform public opinion in the 1890s. Whitman's poetry celebrates the freedom and ... see all copies from £8.05! new only from £11.52! \| first editions
19	Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet more books like this by Paul Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £4.09! new only from £8.98! \| first editions
20 view cover	Textual & literary criticism more books like this by Fredson Thayer Bowers add to wishlist The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer, happily occupied in his travel drudgery, has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them. Professor Bowers advances to the edge of this gulf and says several forceful things across it; they turn out to be important and interesting, though ... see all copies from £2.26! new only from £21.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Walt Whitman more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of American poet Walt Whitman, known for "Leaves of Grass". see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57!
22 view cover	The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman more books like this by M Jimmie Killingsworth add to wishlist Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, ... see all copies from £5.93! new only from £7.43! \| first editions
23 view cover	Familiar Studies of Men & Books more books like this by Robert Louis Stevenson add to wishlist Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.24! \| first editions
24	Whitman and the American Idiom more books like this by Mark Bauerlein add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
25	Minor Prophecy more books like this by David Kuebrick add to wishlist Many of Walt Whitman's earliest readers hailed him as a religious prophet. For them, Leaves of Grass was more than literary art; it was sacred scripture. Recent scholarship has, however, dismissed those early enthusiasts as naive, if not crazy. David Kuebrich's new study of Whitman corrects that academic oversight by giving the early Whitmanites ... see all copies from £4.68! new only from £11.30! \| first editions

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