"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease...observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publicat...
"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease...observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world. This Anniversary Edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself. Today's readers get a sense of the "ur-text" of Leaves of Grass, the first version of this historic volume, before Whitman made many revisions of both format and style. The volume also boasts an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its contributions to literary history. There is also an appendix containing the early responses to the volume, including Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines. This special volume will be a must-have keepsake for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry.
从茫茫的人海中
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
从茫茫的人海中有一滴露珠款款走来，向我低语：
我爱你，不久我将会逝去，
走过千山万水，我只是想来看看你，抚摸你，
只要没有见到你，我不会离开这人间，
因为我怕会失去你。
此刻，我们已相见，我们凝视，我们欣慰，
我的爱，快回到宁静的海域，
要记得我也是海洋的一部分，
我们还不至于远远地分离，
看看这浩渺的宇宙，万物的凝合，尽善尽美！
但是那力量无边的大海就要把你我分离，
可即使分离，也只是短暂的一瞬，而不是残酷的永别，
要有点耐心，只一小会儿，
你就会知道我向天空、海洋和陆地敬礼，
在每天的日落时分，这全都是，为了你。 (查看原文)
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1 有用 Sophie 2010-12-20 16:45:42
读于初三.
0 有用 FUNMAX 2023-02-21 12:29:05 北京
说实话没太看懂，最喜欢Song of the Answer和Great Is the Myth
0 有用 Somer 2014-05-30 18:24:21
like freedom
1 有用 君 2019-10-23 02:26:34
找不到我读的版本。书里写这是最初版的copy，封面上没有惠特曼的名字。没有插图，薄薄的一百页小册子，每页密密麻麻，不认识的词也密密麻麻。十五页蚂蚁般挤着的前言大肆夸赞美国，然而究竟是虚浮不着实际。有时我觉得我似乎懂他在写什么，大部分时候我只能看懂排比，却不知道排比的主体或作业是什么。不乏好段落，但看得人昏昏欲睡，外加无限查字典产生的jarringness，就留不下什么了。
1 有用 alchemist S 2014-10-02 23:54:50
在yale的图书馆里面看到了这一版本 最漂亮的一版