Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America)

The New York Times

Beautiful and authoritative... the most comprehensive volume ever published of the works of Walt Whitman.

Book Description

Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of "Leaves of Grass," and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and glimpses of President Lincoln, and attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the war.