{"product_id":"whitman-poems-edited-by-peter-washington-hardcover","title":"Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalt Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. \u003cb\u003ePoems: Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including \"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,\" \"Song of Myself,\" \"I Hear America Singing,\" \"Halcyon Days,\" and an index of first lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including \"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,\" \"Song of Myself,\" \"I Hear America Singing,\" \"Halcyon Days,\" and an index of first lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, near Huntington, Long Island, New York. His father--a farmer turned carpenter from whom Whitman acquired his freethinking intellectual and political attitudes--moved his wife and nine children to Brooklyn in 1823. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhitman suffered a stroke in 1873 and was forced to retire to Camden, New Jersey, where he would spend the last twenty years of his life. There he continued to write poetry, and in 1881 the seventh edition of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e was published to generally favorable reviews. However, the book was soon banned in Boston on the grounds that it was 'obscene literature.' Whitman was in a precarious financial way in his remaining years, and such writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, and Robert Louis Stevenson contributed to his support. Rich admirers kept him supplied with oysters and champagne (he was fond of both). Whitman even received a visitation from Oscar Wilde, who later reported that 'the good gray poet' made no effort to conceal his homosexuality from him. ('The kiss of Walt Whitman, ' Wilde said, 'is still on my lips.') \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn January 1892 the final 'Death-bed Edition' of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass \u003c\/i\u003eappeared on sale, and Whitman's life's work was complete. He died two months later on the evening of March 26, 1892, and was buried four days afterward at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden. 'Most of the great poets are impersonal, ' Whitman once wrote of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass.\u003c\/i\u003e'I am personal. . . . In my poems, all revolves around, concentrates in, radiates from myself. I have but one central figure, the general human personality typified in myself. But my book compels, absolutely necessitates, every reader to transpose himself or herself into the central position, and become the living fountain, actor, experiencer himself or herself, of every page, every aspiration, every line.'\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 5.98 x 4.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756892193056,"sku":"9780679436324","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/22feed1f57b61ccee3877ab4d4d507b3.webp?v=1780088488","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/whitman-poems-edited-by-peter-washington-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}