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by: Walt Whtiman  EAN: 9781125539132 ISBN: 1125539135 Label: Doubleday Manufacturer: Doubleday Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: 1940 Publisher: Doubleday Studio: Doubleday Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: xiii,316pp, Bound in heavy green burlap-like cloth, lovely illustrations (some in color). A most attractive edition. Intro by Christopher Morley. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - THE SOURCE of ALL American Prose/PoesyHemingway said all American writing comes from one book, Huck Finn. Wrong! He also believed himself a better writer than Fitzgerald. Wrong! I'm no literary expert, I haven't gone to Harvard or Yale or any of those overpriced universities for spoiled rich kids but in my expert opinion all American literature: rhythm, length, flow, syntax, form, etc., came from one book & this is it. Henry Miller was spot-on when he said America has only produced one great writer & that is Walt Whitman. Hemingway's ... Read More Rating: - The original lean, bursting on the scene, Whitman4 1/2 stars, really, but we can't do that. This is the original 1855 version. Whitman added to the collection throughout his life, ending up with an overstuffed and very uneven "deathbed" version, which is better known. There are some good poems in it which aren't in the original, such as When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd, but there's a lot of pretty weak stuff, too. The 1855 has a small number of pretty consistently excellent poems which are highly original and loosely but definitely connected. Reading ... Read More Rating:  - Not the 1855At least as available for the Kindle, this is not the 1855 edition. It seems to be the final edition, which is of course great, but not what I intended to get based on the product description posted. Also, the foreward and afterward mentioned in the description are missing. I don't expect the moon for a low price, but I do expect to get what I pay for. Rating: - Excellent edition of Whitman's MasterworkChoosing the fullest, most complete version of Whitman's text, before the final editing of the deathbed edition, but following the additions made after the Civil War, the Norton Critical is a must have for students of poetry, or literature, and of nature. The wild, ecstatic hunger for the world, the ravishment of the senses, as Norman Mailer put it (though not about Whitman), the mysticism of the flesh, Whitman is, arguably, the most accomplished poet of American letters. A must read for poets, students, ... Read More Rating:  - A looserI bought this and returned it. There must be someone out there with the right voice and reading skills to bring us Whitman's words and rhythms. Ms. Gibson's soprano sing-song doesn't make it. 
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