Description

Hardcover, russet cloth in publisher’s dust-jacket. 313 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs and engravings. First edition, first printing with full number line. An interesting, many-sided analysis of Whitman’s poetry both pre and post war, postulating that Whitman’s all encompassing enthusiasm for the American experiment softened his views of capitalism early on but that post war experience and reality collided to produce an message of hope for the future or romanticism of the past, rather than an extolling of the present. No previous ownership marks. Book is clean, fresh and unmarked. Dust-jacket complete, albeit showing light wear to extremities. Fine in a still very good dust-jacket.