Complete Works: Enriched edition. Poetry, Prose Works, Letters & Memoirs

by Walt Whitman

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Walt Whitman of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition):Song of MyselfA Song for OccupationsTo Think of TimeThe SleepersI Sing the Body ElectricFacesSong of the AnswererEurope the 72d and 73d Years of These StatesA Boston BalladThere Was a Child Went ForthWho Learns My Lesson CompleteGreat Are the MythsLeaves of Grass (The Final Edition):InscriptionsStarting from PaumanokSong of MyselfChildren of AdamCalamusSalut au Monde!Song of the Open RoadCrossing Brooklyn FerrySong of the AnswererOur Old FeuillageA Song of JoysSong of the Broad-AxeSong of the ExpositionSong of the Redwood-TreeA Song for OccupationsA Song of the Rolling EarthBirds of PassageA Broadway PageantSea-DriftBy the RoadsideDrum-TapsMemories of President LincolnBy Blue Ontario's ShoreAutumn RivuletsProud Music of the StormPassage to IndiaPrayer of ColumbusThe SleepersTo Think of TimeWhispers of Heavenly DeathThou Mother with Thy Equal BroodFrom Noon to Starry NightSongs of PartingSands at SeventyGood-Bye My FancyOther EvansLife and Adventures of Jack EngleShort Half-BreedBervance; or, Father and SonThe Tomb-BlossomsThe Last of the Sacred ArmyThe Child-GhostReuben's Last WishA Legend of Life and LoveThe Angel of TearsThe Death of Wind-FootThe MadmanEris; A Spirit RecordMy Boys and GirlsThe Fireman's DreamThe Little A Tale of JerusalemRichard Parker's WidowSome Fact-RomancesThe Shadow and the Light of a Young Man's SoulOther Health and TrainingSpecimen DaysCollectNotes Left OverPieces in Early YouthNovember BoughsGood-Bye My FancySome Laggards Wound DresserThe Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

2987 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2020

About the author

Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island, and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, was financed with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt to reach out to the common person with an American epic. Whitman continued expanding and revising Leaves of Grass until his death in 1892.
During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C., and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he authored two poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures on Lincoln. After suffering a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at the age of 72, his funeral was a public event.
Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Art historian Mary Berenson wrote, "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet... He is America."