Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman s Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Diagnosing democracy s failures as well as laying out its vast possibilities, Whitman offers an unflinching assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870 1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay s historical and cultural...
Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman s Democratic Vistas remains o...
Focusing on actual publications "by" Whitman rather than those "about" him, Joel Myerson s painstakingly compiled supplement to his 1993" Walt Whitman: A Descriptive Bibliography" (Oak Knoll, ISBN 0-82293-739-5) includes almost twenty years of newly discovered and updated materials that will be invaluable to Whitman scholars. The entries describe in detail the various forms of Whitman s books, newspaper articles, broadsheets, reprints, translations, and so on. Myerson includes facsimiles of title pages as well as information on pagination, illustrations, dimensions, contents, publication...
Focusing on actual publications "by" Whitman rather than those "about" him, Joel Myerson s painstakingly compiled supplement to his 1993" Walt Whit...