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The Norton Library edition of Leaves of Grass features carefully curated selections from multiple editions of Walt Whitman’s collected poetry. Ed Whitley provides a compelling introduction and thoughtful notes that weave in threads from Whitman’s own life and emphasize these works’ sustained relevance for contemporary readers.The Norton Library is a growing collection of high-quality texts and translations—influential works of literature and philosophy—introduced and edited by leading scholars. Norton Library editions prepare readers for their first encounter with the works that they’ll re-read over a lifetime.Inviting introductions highlight the work’s significance and influence, providing the historical and literary context students need to dive in with confidence.Endnotes and an easy-to-read design deliver an uninterrupted reading experience, encouraging students to read the text first and refer to endnotes for more information as needed.An affordable price (most $10 or less) encourages students to buy the book and to come to class with the assigned edition.
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Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
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Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionist; Eliza R. Snow, a Mormon pioneer and women's leader; and John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and Native-rights advocate. These three poets not only provide a counterpoint to the Whitmanian persona of the outsider bard, but they also reframe the criteria by which generations of scholars have characterized Whitman as America's poet. This effort to resituate Whitman's place in American literary history provides an innovative perspective on the most familiar poet of the United States and the culture from which he emerged.
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In October1851, a chance meeting in a Piccadilly bookshop changed the course of literaryhistory. For it was here that Mary Ann Evans, an unworldly young scholar, wasintroduced to the love of her life, the critic George Lewes. Encouraged andsupported by Lewes, Evans became the queen of literary London under her penname, George Eliot.In nurturingEliot's talent, Lewes drew inspiration from the works of an unfashionableauthor of the previous generation by the name of Jane Austen. On the face ofit, Austen and Eliot had little in common. Jane Austen was a genteel spinsterwho spent her life in Hampshire, painting Regency domestic dramas with delicateirony and unfailing charm. George Eliot, meanwhile, was a radical intellectualwho lived scandalously with a married man, travelled widely in Europe anddocumented with stirring realism the social upheavals of her age.And yet, whenGeorge Eliot embarked on her career as an author in the late 1850s, the worksof Jane Austen were at her side, feeding her imagination. Separated by time,circumstance and temperament, the two writers nevertheless had a vital impetusin common: to prove the value of a woman's eye in a man's world.Packed withquotes from letters, diaries and the nation's favourite novels, this livelyhistory traces the surprising connections between two of our brightest literarystars and shows, for the first time, how each can be illuminated by the other'slight.