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Cover Stonewall Inn Editions Keith Kahla, General Editor Praise for Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855–1892 Title Page Copyright Notice Copyright Contents Introduction LEAVES OF GRASS • 1855

Whitman’s Preface The Twelve Poems of the 1855 Edition:

“I celebrate myself …” “Come closer to me …” “To think of time …” “I wander all night in my vision …” “The bodies of men and women engirth me …” “Sauntering the pavement …” “A young man came to me …” “Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair …” “Clear the way there Jonathan! …” “There was a child went forth …” “Who learns my lesson complete? …” “Great are the myths …”

WHITMAN’S UNSIGNED REVIEW, BROOKLYN DAILY TIMES (1855) WHITMAN’S UNSIGNED REVIEW, U.S. REVIEW (1855)

LEAVES OF GRASS • 1856

Poem of Salutation Poem of Wonder at The Resurrection of The Wheat Poem of You, Whoever You Are Sun-Down Poem Poem of The Road Poem of Procreation Clef Poem Poem of The Heart of The Son of Manhattan Island Faith Poem Poem of Perfect Miracles Bunch Poem Poem of The Propositions of Nakedness Poem of The Sayers of The Words of The Earth RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S CONGRATULATORY LETTER WHITMAN’S REPLY TO EMERSON THE EMERSON-WHITMAN EXCHANGE: A CONVERSATIONAL POSTSCRIPT (1889)

LEAVES OF GRASS • 1860

Proto-Leaf FROM THE CHANTS DEMOCRATIC CLUSTER:

8 “Splendor of falling day …” 10 “Historian! you who celebrate bygones! …” 12 “To oratists—to male or female …” 14 “Poets to come! …” 18 “Me imperturbe …” 19 “I was looking a long while …” 20 “American mouth-songs! …”

FROM THE LEAVES OF GRASS CLUSTER:

1 “Elemental drifts! …” 13 “O bitter sprig! …” 17 “I sit and look out …” 21 “Now I make a leaf of Voices …” 22 “What am I, after all, but a child …” 24 “Lift me close to your face till I whisper …”

Poem of Joys A Word Out of the Sea FROM THE ENFANS D’ADAM CLUSTER:

1 “To the garden, the world …” 2 “From that of myself …” 6 “O furious! O confine me not! …” 7 “You and I—what the earth is, we are …” 8 “Native moments! when you come upon me …” 9 “Once I passed through a populous city …” 10 “Inquiring, tireless, seeking that yet unfound …” 11 “In the new garden, in all the parts …” 12 “Ages and ages, returning at intervals …” 13 “O hymen! O hymenee! …” 14 “I am he that aches with love …” 15 “Early in the morning …”

THE COMPLETE CALAMUS CLUSTER:

1 “In paths untrodden …” 2 “Scented herbage of my breast …” 3 “Whoever you are holding me now in hand …” 4 “These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers …” 5 “States! …” 6 “Not heaving from my ribbed breast only …” 7 “Of the terrible question of appearances …” 8 “Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me …” 9 “Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted …” 10 “You bards of ages hence! …” 11 “When I heard at the close of the day …” 12 “Are you the new person drawn toward me …” 13 “Calamus taste …” 14 “Not heat flames up and consumes …” 15 “O drops of me! trickle, slow drops …” 16 “Who is now reading this? …” 17 “Of him I love day and night …” 18 “City of my walks and joys! …” 19 “Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority? …” 20 “I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing …” 21 “Music always round me …” 22 “Passing stranger! …” 23 “This moment as I sit alone …” 24 “I hear it is charged against me …” 25 “The prairie-grass dividing …” 26 “We two boys together clinging …” 27 “O love! …” 28 “When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes …” 29 “One flitting glimpse, caught through an interstice …” 30 “A promise and gift to California …” 31 “What ship, puzzled at sea …” 32 “What think you I take my pen in hand to record …” 33 “No labor-saving machine …” 34 “I dreamed in a dream …” 35 “To you of New England …” 36 “Earth! my likeness! …” 37 “A Leaf for hand in hand! …” 38 “Primeval my love for the woman I love …” 39 “Sometimes with one I love …” 40 “That shadow, my likeness …” 41 “Among the men and women, the multitude …” 42 “To the young man, many things to absorb …” 43 “O you whom I often and silently come where you are …” 44 “Here my last words, and the most baffling …” 45 “Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible …”

FROM THE MESSENGER LEAVES CLUSTER:

To Him That was Crucified To One Shortly to Die To a Common Prostitute To a Pupil To The States To a Cantatrice Walt Whitman’s Caution To a President To You To You

Mannahatta FROM THE THOUGHTS CLUSTER:

“Of persons arrived at high positions …”

A Hand-Mirror Beginners Tests FROM THE DEBRIS CLUSTER:

“Have you learned lessons …” “Despairing cries float ceaselessly …” “I understand your anguish …” “Three old men slowly pass …” “Women sit, or move to and fro …” “I thought I was not alone …”

To My Soul So long! UNPUBLISHED INTRODUCTION (1861)

DRUM-TAPS • 1865

Beginning My Studies The Dresser Come Up from the Fields Father City of Ships Mother and Babe Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown A Farm Picture Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun Did You Ask Dulcet Rhymes from Me? Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me The Veteran’s Vision O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods Look Down Fair Moon Hush’d Be the Camps To-day Not Youth Pertains to Me UNPUBLISHED INTRODUCTION (1864) UNPUBLISHED INSCRIPTION TO THE READER

SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS • 1865-66

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d O Captain! My Captain! Chanting the Square Deific Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado Dirge for Two Veterans Reconciliation

LEAVES OF GRASS • 1867

Inscription One’s-Self I Sing The Runner Leaves of Grass 2 (“Tears! tears! tears!”) When I Read the Book UNPUBLISHED INTRODUCTION: LONDON EDITION (1868)

LEAVES OF GRASS • 1871-72

Passage to India Proud Music of the Storm This Dust was Once the Man Whispers of Heavenly Death A Noiseless, Patient Spider Sparkles from the Wheel Gods The Untold Want For Him I Sing To Thee, Old Cause! The Base of all Metaphysics

AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE • 1872

PREFACE One Song, America, Before I Go Souvenirs of Democracy As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free The Mystic Trumpeter By Broad Potomac’s Shore

TWO RIVULETS • 1876

PREFACE Eidolons Prayer of Columbus To a Locomotive in Winter Wandering at Morn With All Thy Gifts UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO THE FOREIGN READER (1876)

LEAVES OF GRASS • 1881

The Dalliance of the Eagles Italian Music in Dakota The Prairie States A Riddle Song Spirit That Form’d This Scene A Clear Midnight

NOVEMBER BOUGHS • 1888

PREFACE (“A BACKWARD GLANCE O’ER TRAVEL’D ROADS”z) Mannahatta A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine A Font of Type As I Sit Writing Here Queries to My Seventieth Year America After the Dazzle of Day Halcyon Days Of That Blithe Throat of Thine Broadway To Get the Final Lilt of Songs The Dead Tenor Yonnondio Life and Death A Prairie Sunset Twilight Now Precedent Songs, Farewell After the Supper and Talk NOTE AT END: COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE (1888) NOTE PRECEDING “A BACKWARD GLANCE” (1889)

LEAVES OF GRASS • 1891-92

AUTHOR’S NOTE TO 1891-92 EDITION PREFACE NOTE TO GOOD-BYE MY FANCY Good-Bye my Fancy On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain! The Pallid Wreath To the Sun-Set Breeze A Twilight Song A Voice from Death “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete” L. of G.’s Purport Good-Bye my Fancy! ARTICLE ON GOOD-BYE MY FANCY (1891)

APPENDICES

1. Poems Published Before Leaves or Posthumously

The Love That Is Hereafter (1840) Each Has His Grief (1841) A Sketch (1842) The Mississippi at Midnight (1848) Resurgemus (1850) Supplement Hours (1897) Of Many a Smutch’d Deed Reminiscent (1897) A Thought of Columbus (1897)

2. Significant Passages from Whitman Manuscripts 3. Whitman’s Observations on Leaves of Grass, 1888-92 4. Contemporary Reviews of Leaves of Grass

1855: Charles Dana, New York Daily Tribune, 23 July 1855

Charles Eliot Norton, Putnam’s Monthly (New York), September Rufus W. Griswold, New York Criterion, 10 November 1855 Edward Everett Hale, North American Review (Boston), January New York Daily News, 27 February 1856 London Critic, 1 April 1856 Fanny Fern, New York Ledger, 10 May 1856 William Swinton, New York Daily Times, 13 November 1856 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Paper (New York), 20 December

1856: Boston Christian Examiner, November 1856

Brooklyn Daily Times, 17 December 1856

1860: New York Times, 19 May 1860

Boston Banner of Light, 2 June 1860 London Literary Gazette, 7 July 1860 London Spectator, 14 July 1860

Drum-Taps: William Dean Howells, Round Table (New York), 11 November

Henry James, Nation (New York), 16 November 1865 A. S. Hill, North American Review (Boston), January 1867

1871: Edward Dowden, Westminster Review (London), July 1881–82: New York Critic, 5 November 1881

T. W. Higginson, Nation (New York), 15 December 477

November Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 30 October 1888 Boughs: San Francisco Chronicle, 13 January 1889

Oscar Wilde, Pall Mall Gazette, 25 January 1889

Good-Bye New York Tribune, 16 August 1891 my Fancy: Boston Literary World, 12 September 1891

A Whitman Chronology Notes on the Poems A Select Whitman Bibliography Index of Titles About the Editor Early Reviews of Mr. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

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