This 150th anniversary edition of the collection that remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets features a new Foreword by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and a new Afterword by Peter Davison. First published 1891-92. This edition first published April 2005.
This collection remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets - a passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.
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The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Author description
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.
