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by Walt Whitman; Harold Bloom (Editor)

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Bloom, author of "The Western Canon" and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of "Song of Myself" to the late poems of "Good-bye My Fancy."

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American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries, Whitman's poetry is a testament to the surging energies of 19th-century America and a monument to the transforming power of literary genius. His incantatory rhythms, revolutionary sense of Eros, and generous, all-embracing vision invite renewed wonder at each reading. Although he has been a defining influence for many poets--Garcia Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Robinson Jeffers, and Allen Ginsberg--his style is ultimately inimitable, and his achievement unsurpassed in American poetry.

"One always wants to start out fresh with Whitman," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction, "and read him as though he never has been read before." In a selection that ranges from early notebook fragments and the complete "Song of Myself" to the valedictory "Good-bye My Fancy!," Bloom has chosen 47 works to represent "the principal writer that America--North, Central, or South--has brought to us."

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Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.

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  • Title Walt Whitman Selected Poems
  • Author Walt Whitman; Harold Bloom (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 221
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Library of America, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-01-27
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781931082327 / 1931082324
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 4.82 x 0.72 in (19.71 x 12.24 x 1.83 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002032124
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.3

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  • Booklist, 03/15/2003, Page 1269
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2003, Page 117

About the author

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers, and is widely considered the greatest American poet of the ninetheenth century.

Harold Bloom is the author of over thirty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; The Western Canon; and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, and has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and is a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.

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