| Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII Contributor(s): Genoways, Ted (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 087745891X ISBN-13: 9780877458913 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $43.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: IN 1961 the first volume of Edwin Haviland Miller's "The Correspondence was published in the newly established series the Collected Writings of Walt Whitman. Miller proceeded to publish five additional volumes of Whitman letters, and other leading scholars, including Roger Asselineau, compiled accompanying volumes of prose, poems, and daybooks. Yet by the late 1980s, the Whitman Collected Writings project was hopelessly scattered, fragmented, and incomplete. Now, more than forty years after the inaugural volume's original publication, Ted Genoways brings scholars the latest volume in "Walt Whitman: The Correspondence. Incorporating all of the letters Miller had collected before his death in 2001 and combining them with more than a hundred previously unknown letters Genoways himself gathered, volume 7 is a perfect accompaniment to Miller's original six-volume work. Among the more than one hundred fifty letters collected in this volume are numerous correspondences concerning Whitman's Civil War years, including a letter sending John Hay, the personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, a manuscript copy of "O Captain, My Captain!" Additional letters address various aspects of the production of "Leaves of Grass, the most notable being an extensive correspondence surrounding the "Deathbed Edition, gathered by Whitman's friend Horace Traubel, and reproduced here for the first time. Most significantly, this volume at last incorporates Whitman's early letters to Abraham Paul Leech, first published by Arthur Golden in "American Literature in 1986. The revelations contained in these letters must be considered among the most important discoveries about Whitman's life made during the last half of thetwentieth century. Regardless of whether its significance is great or small, immediate or long-term, each new piece of Whitman's correspondence returns us to a particular moment in his life and suggests the limitless directions that remain for Whitman scholarship. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003063445 |
| Series: Iowa Whitman (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 7.16" W x 10.12" (1.20 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 40 years after the inaugural volume's original publication, Ted Genoways brings scholars the latest volume in Walt Whitman: The Correspondence. Among the more than 150 letters collected in this volume are numerous correspondence concerning Whitman's Civil War years, including a letter sending John Hay, the personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, a manuscript copy of O Captain, My Captain Additional letters address various aspects of the production of Leaves of Grass, the most notable being an extensive correspondence surrounding the Deathbed Edition, gathered by Whitman's friend Horace Traubel, and reproduced here for the first time. Most significantly, this volume incorporates Whitman's early letters to Abraham Paul Leech, first published by Arthur Golden in American Literature in 1986. The revelations contained in these letters must be considered among the most important discoveries about Whitman's life made during the last half of the 20th century. |