The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman
Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley, NYU Press is pleased to announce that seventeen volumes from this critically acclaimed but long out-of-print series are now available in paperback for the first time. Published between the 1961 and 1984, the volumes in The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman capture every facet of one of America's most important poets. Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems The Correspondence Prose Works 1892 Daybooks and Notebooks Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems Three Volume Set Throughout his life, Walt Whitman continually revised and re-released Leaves of Grass. He added and deleted words, emended lines, divided poems, dropped and created titles, and shifted the order of poems. Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems includes all the variants that Whitman ever published, from the collection’s first appearance in 1855 through the posthumous “Old Age Echoes” annex printed in 1897. Each edition was unique, with its own character and emphasis, and the Textual Variorum enables scholars to follow the development of both the individual poems and the work as a whole. Volume I contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of all the editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. Volume II includes the poems from 1860 through 1867, including the first appearance of When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomd and O Captain! my Captain! Volume III features the poems 18701891, plus the Old Ages Annex and an index to the three-volume set. Sculley Bradley was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pennsylvania. Harold W. Blodgett was Professor of English at Union College. Arthur Golden was Professor of English at City College at the City University of New York. William White was Professor and Director of the Journalism Program at Oakland University.
The Correspondence Six-volume set Volume I: 1842-1867 In discussing letter-writing, Whitman made his own views clear. Simplicity and naturalness were his guidelines. "I like my letters to be personal—very personal—and then stop." This collection of nearly 3,000 letters written over a half century reveals Whitman the man as no other documents can. Volume I includes the poet's correspondence from Washington, DC, during the Civil War, where he nursed wounded and dying soldiers. Volume II presents the poet during the years he was developing an international reputation. As they came to understand one of the most important American voices of the century, European writers such as Edward Dowden and John Addington Symonds began to correspond with Whitman. Volume III covers the years in which Whitman radiated a personal and artistic magnetism, despite the paralysis that struck him in 1873. This period was full of important events, including the attempted censoring of Leaves of Grass, Whitman's renewed friendship with William D. O'Connor, and the arrival in America of Whitman's unrequited lover, Anne Gilchrist. Volumes IV and V cover the last seven years of Whitman's life, giving an almost day-by-day account of his long struggle with various ailments, his stoical acceptance of constant pain, but also his continuing energy. Volume VI offers updates, corrections, and an index to the preceding volumes in the set. Each volume contains an insert featuring sketches and facsimile pages from the letters. Edwin Haviland Miller was Professor of English at New York University. Prose Works 1892 Two-volume set Volume I: Specimen Days This two-volume set proves that Whitman's prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry. Originally written and published as newspaper dispatches, Specimen Days is a collection of Whitman's on-the-spot notes of his experiences as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals in and around Washington during the Civil War. It contains, too, his nature studies, jotted down at the Stafford Farm near Camden during the years of convalescence after his paralysis in 1873. Volume II contains three of Whitman's prose collections, Collect, November Boughs, and Good-Bye My Fancy, plus seven pieces not included in the original 1892 edition of the Complete Prose Works. Floyd Stovall was Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Daybooks and Notebooks Three-volume set Volume I: Daybooks, 1876-November 1881 This collection makes available once again these important sources for reference on the poet's daily activities. The sixteen-year record of the Daybooks supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitman's Correspondence, and outlines the events of the poet's life which gave rise to his many letters and literary reminiscences. The Daybooks record the poet's daily activities, functioning as an account book, diary, journal, commonplace book, and notebook all in one. William White was Professor and Director of the Journalism Program at Oakland University.
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts Six-volume set Volume I: Family Notes and Autobiography Brooklyn and New York Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts gathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study. Edward F. Grier was Professor of English at the University of Kansas.
Gay Wilson Allen was Professor of English at New York University. Sculley Bradley was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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