This revised critical edition of Norton contains the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Whitman's work available in a student pocket edition. The text for Leaves of Grass is once again the indispensable "Complete Reader's Edition", edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. New in this edition is the full text of the celebrated 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass, as well as generous excerpts from Whitman's two prose masterpieces, Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days. Following the texts is an album of Whitman portraits, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide prominent commentary on Whitman by leading 20th century poets and critics, including DH Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and Randall Jarrell, this revised edition adds important commentary from Whitman's contemporaries Henry David Thoreau, Fanny Fern, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde, among others. An entirely new section of recent critiques includes six essays, by David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, John Irwin, Allen Grossman, Betsy Erkkila, and Michael Moon, reflecting both the historicist mainstream of Whitman's literary interpretation and its influence. . recent work in gender and sexuality studies.
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