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The first book to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with Whitman (and with each other) as they invite readers to trace how Whitman's writing about the Civil War develops, shifts, and manifests itself.

Walt Whitman wrote three distinct editions of Leaves of Grass before the Civil War. During those years he was passionately committed to anti-slavery, and fully attuned to the kind of rhetoric coming out of the new Republican party. This study explores how the prophecies of the pre-war Leaves of Grass relate to the prophecy of this new party.

Brings together a rich collection of Betsy Erkkila's phenomenally influential essays that have been published over the years, along with two powerful new essays. Erkkila offers a moving account of the inseparable mix of the spiritual-sexual-political in Whitman and the absolute centrality of male-male connection to his work and thinking.

In 1852, young Walt Whitman was hard at work writing two books. One, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is a short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City. After more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press has reprinted this lost work.

The first book devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. These essays add to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of their views; and appreciation for their anxieties in the war's aftermath.

Asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Writers like Walt Whitman spoke to the imagination inspired by media transformations by calling attention to connectedness, to how literature not only moves us emotionally, but moves around in the world among people and places.

Grounded in archival discoveries, Afterlives traces the origins of nineteenth-century America's preservation compulsion, illuminating the influences of botanical, medical, spiritualist, and sentimental discourses on Whitman's work.

Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working journalist. Yet for decades, much of his journalism has been difficult to access or even find. For the first time, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism thematically and chronologically organises a compelling selection of Whitman's journalism from the late 1830s to the Civil War.

By reconsidering Walt Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity, but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class, this book defines the tensions and ambiguities about culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry. It also reveals a class-conscious and conflicted Whitman.

In March, 1888, Horace Traubel, Walt Whitman's loyal, hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the ""good, gray poet"". Here are those exchanges, condensed into one book and conveying the self-revealing, humorous, nostalgic and often curmudgeonly words of the master.

Among the more than 150 letters collected in this volume are numerous correspondence concerning Whitman's Civil War years, including a letter sending John Hay, the personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, a manuscript copy of ""O Captain, My Captain!