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Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, genre: digte
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Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, genre: digte, Som ny bog fra det engelske forlag Folio Society. Indbundet i læder og stof med guld stempling og forgyldt top.
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Beskrivelse af bogen fra forlaget:
On 4 July 1855, an unknown journalist and printer’s devil named Walt Whitman published a book of poetry, written, designed, typeset and distributed by himself. Whitman sent a copy of the book to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who instantly hailed it as ‘the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed’. Today Leaves of Grass remains a visionary masterpiece, a hymn to nature and humankind’s place in it. In the words of former poet laureate Andrew Motion in the introduction to this edition, it is ‘quite simply one of the most remarkable first books of poems ever published’.
The publication of Leaves of Grass was a truly revolutionary event. The book’s very appearance set it apart, with a binding design based on roots and leaves, and a daguerrotype portrait of Whitman in lieu of a name or title page. Whitman aimed for ‘clearness, simplicity, no twistified or foggy sentences, at all’, and his flowing language prefigured the free verse of the 20th century. The poem’s sensual candour and unconventional structure caused consternation at the time, but the power of Whitman’s poetry has since thrilled countless readers. (‘Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth; /Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go’; ‘I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world’.)
Production details:
Introduced by Andrew Motion.
Illustrated by Abigail Rorer.
Quarter bound in leather with buckram sides, blocked with a design by Frances Button.
Set in Adobe Caslon. Ribbon marker and gilded top edge.
200 pages with 20 wood engravings and 9 tail pieces.
Size: 10" × 7½".
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