The Portable Walt Whitman by Malcolm Cowley, Mark Van Doren, Walt Whitman, Gay Wilson Allen

648 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civ...

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