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Title: Leaves of Grass, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Walt Whitman, Michael Moon, Sculley Bradley, Harold William Blodgett ISBN: 0-393-97496-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (46 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The True American Patriot
Comment: After reading a portion of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", particularly the preface and "Song of Myself", I found it to be inspiring and uplifting. Whitman is the most enthuiastic American poet I have ever read and his passion for life and nature is amazing. He did not ever want to miss a second of life or the smallest detail of nature. He shares his limitless love for all Americans, including, of course, himself. I particularly enjoy his frequent usage of listing without commas, which I find livens his excitement for life even more. Whitman, although he may come off as a bit over eager to some, truly makes you realize how blessed you are and how lucky you are to live in this beautiful place, and he reminds us all that we should not take any of these blessings for granted. Something I find I need to be reminded of more than I should. I recommend this book to all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Walt Whitman, A Cosmos
Comment: Walt Whitman is the father of free verse and his main work, Leaves of Grass, is perhaps one of the greatest works by an American poet ever written.
He was born on Long Island and grew up in Brooklyn. Being a native of Brooklyn myself I feel a deep connection to him. When I read his work I am instantly transported into his universe, a universe which is the domain of every man. For Walt Whitman was possibly the greatest democrat who ever lived.
In his great poem, Song of Myself, his opening lines are: "I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." This is not only good old American horse sense, it's good science. For everything comes forth from that great source of life the sun, and none can be better for it, only different.
Walt was a born visionary. And I surmise that he must have had quite a few mystical experiences before he set out to write his great poems. You can really get a sense of his mystical connection when you read poems like When I Heard The Learned Astronomer or even in Song of Myself when he proclaims: "There was never any more inception than there is now, nor any more youth or age than there is now; and will never be any more perfection than there is now, nor any more heaven or hell than there is now." Notice the emphasis on the word now. Mystics through the ages have said that God is beyond time, that God is the eternal presence, and that he exists in a timeless eternity sometimes referred to as the eternal now. I believe that's what Walt Whitman is telling us.
I could go on and on singing the praises of Walt Whitman. His work is inexhaustable and profound and wise beyond measure. But there are innumerable books written about him. However, I believe to catch the essence of the man you have to read his poems. And if you let him in he will lead you to yourself and you will see the world through fresh eyes .... and you will see how the perennial grass covers only the outer layer of this our miraculous universe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding Poems here
Comment: This is one of the first books of poetry that I ever read. My Great Grand Father had this book, and it was very old looking to me when I first seen it 25 years ago, I was young then and didn't know that the book held a value. I don't know where it is now but I know the poems were really good and I enjoyed them immensely. Walt Whitman is a great writer, and I enjoy is poems.
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Title: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson, Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver ISBN: 0679783229 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0316184136 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson ISBN: 0486277909 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 13 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville ISBN: 0553213113 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem ISBN: 0805069860 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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