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Franklin Library leather edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," Illustrated with Wood Cuts by Antonio Frasconi, a Limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1981. Bound in brown leather, the book has burnt orange silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges--- in near FINE condition. Walter Whitman, who lived from 1819-1892, was born on Long Island, New York. When Whitman published the first edition, privately printed copy of "Leaves of Grass," in 1855, the book did not sell well, but RALPH WALDO EMERSON praised the "Leaves" as the most original poem he had read in years. Whitman tried a variety of occupations: printing, public school teaching, handyman, etc., He was passionately opposed to slavery, but refused to fight in the Civil War because he was a pacifist. His "Drum Tap" poems about the Civil War are the finest in American Literature. Whitman adored Abraham Lincoln and wrote "O, Captain, My Captain," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Hushed Be the Camps To-Day," and others as tributes to the assassinated 16th President of the U.S. Whitman is the urban poem with many poems praising his native Manhattan, namely "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Paumanok," and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." Other collections include: The "Inscriptions," "Children of Adam," "Calamus," "Birds of Passage," "Sea Drift," "By the Roadside," "Memories of President Lincoln," "Autumn Rivulets," "Whispers of Heavenly Death, "From Noon to Starry Night," "Songs of Parting," "First Annex: Sands at Seventy," and "Second annex: Good-Bye My Fancy." In 1866, a biography was published with the title "The Good Gray Poet" and the characterization has been applied since then. Whitman never "came out of the closet," but many people suspected he was gay and he was fired from a government position because of this accusation. His homo erotic poems are still controversial---even in the 21st century. 513 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
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