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and fifty years ago, a little-known poet chose a small print house in Brooklyn to print his first book

The poet was Walt Whitman and the book was Leaves of Grass .

By the time of Whitman's death, the small book had gone through eight editions and grown fivefold in

On the sesquicentennial of the book's publication, has undergone another significant change, moving from

From the very beginning, Whitman foresaw a grand scale for the book.

sea-change that took place in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book

of Matthew Cohen's undergraduate English students have never ventured into Duke University's Rare Book

The author of two monographs and editor of two books on the poet, and co-director of the , Price considers

"To go to one place when you're working on a poem or a book, search and find all the manuscripts for

What has set Whitman scholars abuzz is that the original order would have ended the book with a slave

Genoways, who is finishing a book on Whitman and the Civil War, considers the unified guide an amazing

Whitman did not just write his book, he made his book, and he made it over and over again, each time

Each edition of is essentially a different book, not just another version of the same book.

Potter (fig. 50).

Potter.

Working again with Harry Bonsall at the Printing Office in Camden, Whitman had the book in print by December

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary, by Ed Folsom, was published by the

Rights to the electronic edition are held by the author.The print edition of Whitman Making Books/Books

Chinese philosopher who wrote the most important early book of Taoism.

Hugh Kenner entitled an enormous book he published in 1971 The Pound Era .

Although no one, so far as I know, has written a book entitled , many critics have written books about

And I also wrote an infamous book on him entitled T. S.

' family members using the stoop to communicate with prisoners gathered at the prison windows.

proliferation of references to Whitman in popular culture and the explosion of criticism since 1990—over 120 books

edition of Leaves of Grass , which was slated to gather manuscripts, periodical publications, and book

publications, ended up dealing only with the published books—a decision that has meant that vital documents

We're doing this in part because his work defies the constraints of the book.

and at least a thousand dollars to complete my set of the a few volumes at a time from secondhand book

Blue Book , edited by Arthur Golden, which contains the poet's revisions of the third edition of , and

As Folsom details in Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman , the process of examining all the surviving

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary .

Some sites provide miniature lessons in collecting Whitman or in History of the Book scholarship; some

We also plan to offer online some full-length critical books for which we have secured copyright.

We'll start with books written or edited by the staff.

I expect we will want to present additional books as time, money, and copyright allow.

Whitman used pens and pencils, paper and magazines, type and books to create .

If you will show me a well-written book that contains the same emotion, I agree to bind the leaves of

the Whitman book.

The Haldeman-Julius books were a fascinating mix of types: literary classics, self-help books, atheist

Despite wartime circumstances, few ASE books were censored.

Cole (ed.), Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions .

Golden, Harry (1960). Foreward.

something of this experience, he wrote to Ralph Waldo Emerson, "I desire and intend to write a little book

And yet, Thoreau continued, "There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable, to say

response from Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, who dismissed the poet's Leaves as a "very bad book

He is a poet, and I believe has written some very queer books about 'Free Love,' etc."

George Whitman had lived through many more battles and even survived imprisonment in the "Prison-Pens

Marilyn Monroe reading Leaves of Grass I began this book at Texas A&M University, expanded its range

Dozens of books on Whitman's life and poetry have been published on every continent.

This book could have treated innumerable topics ranging from Whitman's impact on music, architecture,

I hold the book in my hand, &. . . see your name all over the page!"

The book must surely have a great influence on the young Frenchmen of letters. . . .

"this is no book, / Who touches this touches a man" [ , 505]).

He knew how to set type, and he knew how books were printed and bound.

Late in his life, Whitman noted how "I sometimes find myself more interested in book making than in book

writing . . . the way books are made—that always excites my curiosity: the way books are written—that

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Now, is the book's title, so most readers, editors, and critics apparently have assumed this repeated

University Press three-volume variorum edition ignores these titles, as do most reprintings of the book

endless amount of information in the feel of the pages, the stubs of the cut-out leaves, in the way the book

Press has generously agreed to let us put online the entire Iowa Whitman Series (currently fifteen books

Keeping a commonplace book edges toward database; keeping a journal, toward narrative.

Because his purpose in this book was to allow readers to study previously unpublished Whitman manuscript

annual, was, after all, a highly specialized scholarly journal, and was a technical university press book

This paragraph from the dust jacket embodies Martin's aspirations for the book: seeks to be an intervention

another source, such as Roy Harvey Pearce's facsimile edition of the 1860 (Ithaca, N.Y: Great Seal Books

missing, yet to be discovered, that no doubt will turn up within days of publication, rendering the book

publications of Whitman's poems, but it ended up dealing only with the book publications, leaving the

With book technology, again, there was a hesitation to put the monumental editions to press for fear

Still, those books are the basis of what we know about Whitman, and they are embedded now in the last

So much of the labor of book-editions of were devoted to the process of turning materials—manuscripts

"Prison-escaping" What happened next to Doyle?

It's been assumed that Doyle was a prisoner of war.

On April 18, 1863, he was confined in Carroll Prison, an annex to the Old Capitol Prison.

Now Harry was to be Whitman's "darling boy."

For the first time, Walt told Doyle of the Stafford farm, but he did not mention Harry.

The poem was apparently written as Whitman was making notes for his 1882-1883 book, Specimen Days.

When one appears at book auctions, buyers are ready to invest as much as 300,000 dollars.

Reviewers point out the strangeness of this book.

The upper third of the page is occupied by the book's title in very big bold type.

The book opens of course with a "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American."

Since I have seen him, I find that I am not disturbed by any brag or egoism in his book.

University of Bergamo, where he founded the Zebra Center of Studies on the Languages of Identities, and the Book

To Whitman he devoted two books with facing-page translation, and extensive commentaries: Foglie d'erba

1855 (Marsilio, Venice 1996), never translated before in Italy as a separate book, was awarded the National

scholars to examine the poem in its various manifestations, from manuscript notes through multiple book

poem, and all of Whitman's recastings of the poem on proof sheets and in his personal copies of his books

English department (or any course using the interdisciplinary approaches known as the History of the Book

His multifaceted involvement in the design of his books makes it imperative to have both traditional

To understand "Song of Myself" as part of one of Whitman's books in the fullest sense we need to go beyond

usually hope to have only a few black and white illustrations in a book.

Should address books, shopping and laundry lists be included?

an online edition of the book documents with links to our image edition.

Print runs for a book of literary criticism are now rarely more than 1,000 copies, if that.

The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen .

Clearly, this is a highly significant book.

That final authorized printing of Whitman’s book is in fact presented twice in the New York University

, set some of the type, distributed the book, and anonymously reviewed it.

It is easier, frankly, to exclude contributions made by book designers, copyeditors, typesetters, and

This is in sharp contrast to a book published fifty years ago and deposited in a library.

great battles) of the Secession war; and it is best they should not—the real war will never get in the books

stains—and what the aura of the original documents evoked: "I have perhaps forty such little note-books

shape of his experimental autobiography, Specimen Days , with its seemingly displaced center: the book

what most people would regard as Whitman’s great achievement in life—the writing of his breakthrough book

Price have written, this fact is evidence that Whitman "was obviously confused about what form his book

The problem with the 1867 edition of , however, is that because each of the 4 books-within-a-book is

The book's four title pages list three different dates and two different places.

"—or only to the first book.

making than in book writing: the way books are made—that always excites my curiosity: the way books

A neighbor stops by Whitman's house in Camden, N.J., praises his book November Boughs and asks to buy

Horace Traubel, Whitman's young literary disciple, searches through the 2-foot-deep piles of papers and books

He comes up with not six copies of the book but a dozen.

That's where Duke University's Trent Collection of Whitman manuscripts and books comes in, along with

Other items include correspondence, drafts of poems and books in whose margins he scribbled notes.

We are attempting this in part because Whitman's writings defy the constraints of the book.

appearing in a periodical; corrected page proofs; and various printed versions of the poem appearing in books

We also offer the only comprehensive current bibliography of work—including books, essays, notes, and

Cambridge obliged us, I suppose, because they didn't actually own the material they had printed in book

One publicity person said that we are, in effect, unlocking the doors of locked-up rare book rooms.

Higginson wondered why the book had not been suppressed: he saw "no good in [this] publication, except

and rude muscle," to a physically weak counting-room clerk who labors day-in-and-day-out over his books

But it was written in the book of fate that Whitman's two greatest enemies (Horace Traubel & Wm D.

Osgood on 1 March 1882: "We are of the opinion that this book is such a book as brings it within the

Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1997), 71–115.

He would have been in the big yellow book with Poetry on the cover. But therein lies the problem.

Emerson, in fact, seemed to struggle to name what Whitman's dizzying new book was: he called it a "piece

It was left to Whitman, with his second edition of the book in 1856, to assign the word poem to every

, his work resists the constraints of single book objects.

things—six books, three written before the Civil War and three after, each responding in key ways to

the new first volume of his two-volume biography of Melville can attest—an exhaustive, exhausting book

In a recent review of that book in The New York Review (15 May 1997) Andrew Delbanco takes Parker to

To Whitman—certain that the real war would never get in the books—it was the forgotten people rather

renowned critic Lawrence Buell recently described the first edition of as the single most original book

We differ from the NYUP edition also in stressing the material objects, typically books and manuscripts

Whitman's poetry in periodicals. 2008: Whitman's annotated copies of 1855 and 1860 (the so-called "blue book

The search for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason

I still remember finding volume four of Traubel's conversations—the last one I needed—in a book barn

of the online authoritative edition has arrived, and while I still cherish the material culture of books

It is like having $1-million worth of rare books at your disposal.

A book, once printed, is likely to survive, but a Web site, once erased from a server, is probably gone