num_pages: 1380
description: Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of Leaves of Grass , and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of 19th-century New York City, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and glimpses of President Lincoln, and attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the war.
language: English
title: Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose
titlecomplete: Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose
genres: American History, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry, History, Classics, Biography Memoir, Civil War, Biography
ratings_count: 289
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Routledge