Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song

Book Overview

First published to wide critical acclaim in 1981, revised and expanded in 1998, and now re-issued as a corrected second edition (2014), this monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."), this edition contains responses from Thoreau, Pound, Lawrence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930100786
• ISBN13: 9780930100780
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Holy Cow Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"