This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)

This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)

"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...(展开全部)

When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but as Harold Bloo...(展开全部)

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), one of the ...(展开全部)

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY OF OSCAR WILDE'S LIFE AND WORK HISTORICAL CONTEST OF THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY DE PROFUNDIS THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL NOTES INTERPRETIVE NOTES CRITICAL EXCERPTS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERESTED READER

Contents Introduction by Richard Ellmann The Picture of Dorian Gray Lady Windemere's Fan Salome An Ideal Husband The Importance of being Earnest The Ballad of Reading Gaol

This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable’s two volumes, a selection from Mandeville’s An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert’s Introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates—particularly that of the na...(展开全部)