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wander around Cambridge, which still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities
It seemed almost providential, as if we were destined to come together.
with an impressive documentary Web site called " The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American
"The World of Dante," "The Vivarium Digital Library of Latin Literature," "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American
He was the most photographed American author of the 19th century, but no publisher is likely to support
Every week, the invasion of generic products took over a larger segment of American grocery stores.
Category had prevailed; the borders were secured.
and performing typographical experiments that forced readers to engage the printed page in ways they were
" but never once mentioning poetry as the thing that made him rub his eyes "to see if this sunbeam were
how to sell his book, and one thing he needed to do was make it clear to consumers just what they were
The archive already includes six American editions of Leaves of Grass , as well as the "deathbed" printing
Project co-director Kenneth Price, a professor of American literature at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
These letters provide context for poems drafted at the time, many of which were inspired by wounded soldiers
Whitman was well prepared to produce a poetic tribute to a great American city in 1855.
of Whitman’s Memory : 209 landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961.
Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—these were names that were now shared by American
American Literature 28 (March 1956): 78–79. Exactly 795 copies of the 1855 Leaves were bound.
In The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860.
But when we prepared to tag the text of the first edition, we were confronted with the jarring typographical
And since in the 1860 edition Whitman includes a cluster of twenty-four numbered poems called "Leaves
interpretive narratives about them, using bits of the data to construct a meaning that is always exceeded
and it includes transcriptions (whole text and individual poems) and facsimiles of the six major American
Price's edited collection, Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews , along with several reviews that were
Cohen of Duke University, will be fully searchable and will include facsimiles of the ephemera that were
Nebraska, is developing a section that includes about fifty interviews with Whitman, most of which were
Iowa City: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2005. Folsom, Ed. and Kenneth M. Price. .