Walt Whitman
By: selected by Ellman Crasnow
Contributors: Crasnow, Ellman
Edition: Phoenix ed.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780760749111
Work titles: Poems
Description: Celebrate the poetry of one of America's greatest writers. Best known for his anthology Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman truly captured the country's spirit as it began to mature all the issues that concerned this growing democracy--from immigration and race to the plight of working men and women--became the subject of his poems. Among the masterpieces represented here are There Was a Child Went Forth Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking I Sing the Body Electric and A Clear Midnight.
Notes: "This edition first published by Everyman in 1996"--T.p. verso.