Walt Whitman, an American a study in biography /
| Main Author: | Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961. |
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| Other Authors: | Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1943.
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| Physical Description: |
viii pages, 1 leaf, 381 pages : XVI plates (1 double, including frontispiece, portraits) on 9 leaves ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
"A selective bibliography": pages 371-375. Paumanok -- Brooklyn ferry -- Spiritual climate -- 'What do you hear Walt Whitman? ... What do you see Walt Whitman?' -- 'Over the roofs of the world' -- 'Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son' -- 'The open road' -- 'House-building, measuring, sawing the boards' -- 'Out of the cradle endlessly rocking' -- 'The American poem' -- 'We have positively arrived' -- 'I sit and look out' -- 'Camerado, I give you my hand' -- 'Are you the new person drawn toward me?' -- 'The people sprawl with yearning, aimless hands' -- 'It is a man, flushed and full-blooded -- it is I' -- 'Children of Adam' -- 'Here the frailest leaves of me' -- 'Long too long America ... you learn'd from joys and prosperity only' -- 'To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead' -- 'O powerful Western fallen star!' -- 'I was looking a long while for intentions' -- 'Sail forth -- steer for the deep waters only' -- 'Shut not your doors to me proud libraries' -- 'Old poor, and paralyzed, I thank thee' -- 'Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me' -- 'I hear America singing' -- 'Who learns my lesson complete?' -- 'Who touches this touches a man' -- 'Good-bye my fancy'. |
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| Physical Description: |
viii pages, 1 leaf, 381 pages : XVI plates (1 double, including frontispiece, portraits) on 9 leaves ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
"A selective bibliography": pages 371-375. |
| ISBN: |
0837134218 9780837134215 |