| Leaves of Grass Contributor(s): Whitman, Walt (Author), Moon, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393974960 ISBN-13: 9780393974966 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $32.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2002 Annotation: This edition is based on the venerable Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass (1973), edited by the late Scully Bradley and Harold Blodgett. The new text inclusions are "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days. Throughout, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. "Criticism" collects eighteen essays, eleven of them new to this edition, including those by Fanny Fern, Henry David Thoreau, Anne Gilchrist, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Michael Moon, John Irwin, Allen Grossman, and Betsy Erkkila. A Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles are included. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.3 |
| LCCN: 2001045248 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 4.68" W x 10.06" (1.86 lbs) 976 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as Whitman on His Art, a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide leading commentary on Whitman by major twentieth-century poets and critics, among them D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and Randall Jarrell, this revised edition adds important commentary by Whitman contemporaries Henry David Thoreau, Fanny Fern, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde, among others. An entirely new section of recent criticism includes six essays--by David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, John Irwin, Allen Grossman, Betsy Erkkila, and Michael Moon--that reflect both the continuing historicist mainstream of Whitman literary interpretation and influential recent work in gender and sexuality studies. The volume also includes a Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moon, Michael: - Michael Moon is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program for Women, Gender and Sexuality at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass, A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiations in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol, and editor of Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill. |