The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser, Letters

By Walt Whitman

This ebook collects the six U.S. editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass that he published in his lifetime, plus the annexes of the so-called "Deathbed Edition" from 1891 (the Leaves of Grass portion of which is a reprint of the '81 release).

LEAVES OF GRASS
Brooklyn, New York:
1855.

LEAVES OF GRASS
Brooklyn, New York:
1856.

LEAVES OF GRASS
Boston,
Thayer and Eldridge,
Year 85 of the States, (1860-61)

LEAVES OF GRASS
New-York.
1867.

LEAVES OF GRASS
Washington D. C.
1872.

LEAVES OF GRASS
Boston
James R. Osgood and Company
1881-82

LEAVES OF GRASS
[ANNEXES]
Philadelphia:
David McKay, Publisher
23 South Ninth Street
1891-'2

SOME OF THE POEMS INCLUDED:

Song of Myself, I Sing the Body Electric, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking...

• Language: English
• Publisher: CDED
• Release date: Aug 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9782377931972

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was born in Long Island on the 31st May 1819 to Walter Whitman, a carpenter and farmer, and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. Walt was one of eight siblings and was taken out of school at the age of eleven to start work, but he continued to read voraciously and visit museums. He worked first as a printer, then briefly as a teacher before settling on a career in journalism. He self-published the first version of Leaves of Grass, which consisted of only twelve poems, in 1855. By the time he died in 1892, and despite arousing considerable controversy, he enjoyed unprecedented international success and to this day is considered to be one of America’s greatest poets.