Walt Whitman
Subtitle: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Contributors: Gary Schmidgall (Editor)
Publisher: Stonewall Inn Editions
Published: September 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780312267902
Subjects: Works by individual poets: 19th century; American - General; Poetry / Single Author / American; Poetry
First sentence: AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religious . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days.