Books by Walter Whitman

This collection covers over 200 of Whitman's finest poems, focusing on the exuberant poems Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life. These poems are presented as Whitman first gave them to the world, before becoming the Good Gray Poet through years of revision and suppression.

Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, this title offers a diagnosis of democracy's failures and lays out its vast possibilities. It also includes an assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States.