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Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s dust-jacket. 255 pages. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. A study of the influences and motivations behind the poetic composition of Whitman’s early poems; i.e. those which made up the first several editions of “Leaves of Grass”. Black draws a clear distinction between the poets’ early work which are “events” and his later poems which simply chronicle events. No previous ownership marks. A clean tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows only mild shelf-wear. Fine in a very good dust-jacket.