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In Walt Whitman, Michael Cunningham sees a poet whose vision of humanity is ecstatic, democratic, and sensuous. Just over a hundred years ago, Whitman celebrated America as it survived the Civil War, as it endured great poverty, and as it entered the Industrial Revolution, which would make it the most powerful nation on Earth. In Specimen Days Michael Cunningham makes Whitman's verse sing across time, and in Laws for Creations he celebrates what Whitman means to him, and how he appeared at the heart of his new novel.

Just as the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours...

When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891,...

POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN

by

Walt Whitman

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti

A New Edition

CONTENTS

DRUM TAPS:

• MANHATTAN ARMING
• 1861
• THE UPRISING
• BEAT BEAT DRUMS
• SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAYBREAK
• THE BIVOUAC'S FLAME
• BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE
• CITY OF SHIPS
• VIGIL ON THE FIELD
• THE FLAG
• THE WOUNDED
• A SIGHT IN CAMP
• A GRAVE
• THE DRESSER
• A LETTER FROM CAMP
• WAR DREAMS
• THE...