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In 1858, famed American author Walt Whitman penned a series of newspaper columns under a pseudonym on the subject of "manly health and training," shortly before his landmark third edition of Leaves of Grass was published. Recently discovered for the first time in 150 years, the fascinating manifesto contains the renowned poet's advice and musings on topics such as diet, exercise, grooming, alcohol, dancing, sports,...

To mark 160 years since its first publication, a new edition of the great American poet's most famous work
Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself.

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of 19th-century American life of all ages and races. Revolutionary in style and controversial in content when it was first published in 1855, Whitman's masterwork has since inspired generations with its intoxicating...

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...

Ein berührendes, erregendes Buch, das uns spüren lässt, was es heißt, lebendig zu sein

»Specimen Days«, »Besondere Tage« nannte Walt Whitman seine Sammlung autobiographischer Texte. Ihr Herzstück sind seine Erlebnisse während des Amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Drei Jahre lang zieht Whitman durch die Lazarette Washingtons, lauscht den Erzählungen der Verwundeten, ihren Hoffnungen und Ängsten, und gibt seelischen Zuspruch - ein erschütterndes Zeugnis jener Seite des Krieges, die nicht in die Geschichtsbücher Eingang findet. Dazu gesellen sich Erinnerungen an die Kindheit...