Leaves of grass and other writings : authoritative texts, other poetry and prose, criticism /
Walt Whitman ; edited by Michael Moon.
- Expanded and rev. ed. based on the Norton critical edition of Leaves of grass edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett.
- New York : Norton, c2002.
- lii, 919 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
- A Norton critical edition .
Includes bibliographical references (905-906) and index.
$a This new edition of Leaves of Grass inlcudes Live Oak, with Moss and prose selections from Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days. Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. Whitman on His Art presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles. Criticism collects 18 essays, 11 of which are new to this edition, including those by: Fanny Fern, Henry David Thoreau, Anne Gilchrist, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Michael Moon, John Irwin, Allen Grossman and Betsy Erikkila. A chronology and selected bibliography and an index of titles are included.