The Early Poems and the Fiction
New York: New York University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Bound in half gray and half red cloth boards with gilt lettering, green title block on spine; xxii, 352 pp; facsimiles. Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Bumping to corners. Binding tight.). Item #187386
Contents: The Poems. Young Grimes [Old Grimes] -- The Inca's daughter -- The love that is hereafter -- The Spanish lady -- The Columbian's song -- The winding-up [The end of all] -- Each has his grief [We all shall rest at last] -- The punishment of pride -- Ambition [Fame's vanity] -- The death and burial of McDonald Clarke. A parody -- Time to come [Our future lot] -- Death of the nature-lover [My departure] -- The play-ground -- Ode -- The house of friends [Wounded in the house of friends] -- Resurgemus [Europe, the 72d and 73d years of these states] -- Sailing the Mississippi at midnight [The Mississippi at midnight] -- Dough-face song [Song for certain congressmen] -- Blood-money -- New Year's Day, 1848 -- Isle of La Belle Riviere.
The fiction. Death in the school-room (a fact) -- Wild Frank's return -- The child and the profligate [The child's champion] -- Bervance: or, father and son -- The tomb blossoms -- The last of the sacred army -- The last loyalist [the child-ghost; a story of the last loyalist] -- Reuben's last wish -- A legend of life and love -- The angel of tears -- The madman -- The love of Eris: a spirit record [Eris: a spirit record] -- My boys and girls -- Dumb Kate [Dumb Kate.-an early death] -- The little sleighers -- The half-breed: a tale of the western frontier [Arrow-tip] -- Shirval: a tale of Jerusalem -- Richard Parker's widow -- The boy lover -- One wicked impulse! [Revenge and requital: a tale of a murderer escaped].
Some fact-romances. [A fact-romance of Long Island] -- [The Old Black Widow] -- [An Incident on Long Island Forty Years Ago] -- The shadow and the light of a young man's soul -- Lingave's temptation -- Appendices: A. Publication history of Whitman's fiction -- B. Chronology of Walt Whitman's life and work.
OCLC: 276186
Price: $36.00