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published
March 2001
by Book Sales
(first published 1942)
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Hardcover, 200 pages
isbn
0785812830
(isbn13: 9780785812838)
description
This classic series of poets is printed in deluxe cloth editions. These selections represent the finest works of the world's most eminent poets.
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My son Kane called me last night and asked if I would be his second pair of eyes for his papers he has to write this weekend. The first is one on Walt Whitman, whom my mother loves: From the time I was just a toddler, she was raving about him to me, reading bits of him, etc. Today she told me she has part of his poem about Animals on her wall. So I decided to take the two Walt Whitman books I have on my shelf and read them. I think I have only scanned them in the past as a kind of homage to ...more
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Read in April, 2009
I have read as much I could!
I have read apostrophes - long, exhaustive lists of apostrophes!
I have felt for the common man
I have felt for the common woman
Yet I have found myself skimming, and rarely pausing.
O these poems are coherent and distinctive.
O they have their moments and doubtless somewhere amongst their long sentences and long stanzas there are jewels.
But I now think of Whitman's contemporaries : of Robert Browning with longing, of Arnold...more
I have read apostrophes - long, exhaustive lists of apostrophes!
I have felt for the common man
I have felt for the common woman
Yet I have found myself skimming, and rarely pausing.
O these poems are coherent and distinctive.
O they have their moments and doubtless somewhere amongst their long sentences and long stanzas there are jewels.
But I now think of Whitman's contemporaries : of Robert Browning with longing, of Arnold...more
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Read in January, 1999
Dover publications offer an amzing selection. How they ever manage to do it I will never know, but they do, and the quality is really goof. I am not saying the paper it is printed on will last, but it's a batgain non the less!! Buy cheaply from Dover. Highly recommended.
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Read in April, 2009
Had to read his poem on the annivesary of Abe Lincolns death and the poem on liliacs since they are in bloom! Bought this one for my collection~
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Read in January, 2006
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I found this in my garage while having a smoke recently, and was surprised to find out some of his poems are really good.
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Read in June, 1992
Again, not a poetry buff, but any well/widely read chap has to dig on some Whitman at one time or another.
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Read in January, 1997
Love this book in spurts. Can't exactly read it for 5 hours like some of you read Twilight...
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I love Walt Whitman. I love every sensual word that ever dripped from his pen.
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