This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...one may perhaps catch a glimpse of the conception that a feeling so largely developed in him was merely latent in others; and that in the evolution of our race there might become normal and natural in all men a yearning of companion for companion, a love of friend for friend, that would be among the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...one may perhaps catch a glimpse of the conception that a feeling so largely developed in him was merely latent in others; and that in the evolution of our race there might become normal and natural in all men a yearning of companion for companion, a love of friend for friend, that would be among the highest manifestations of the divinity within us. And deeper and more mystical still, a doctrine that ( as the love of sex was bound up with life, so this greater, more basic love was bound up with death. The former plays its part, fulfils its function, and has its end. The latter, less obvious in its aim, looks for-ward beyond the term of life for the fulfilment of its mysterious power. The love of sex wanes with age and disappears with life, but perhaps not so the other, which may somehow have the same affinity for death that its predecessor had for life. Whether Whitman was conscious of this inference is open to doubt, but the ideas appear in close juxtaposition in these poems, and seem to have had in his mind a real connection. Such were the contents of the new volume issuing from the press in the troubled days just preceding the outbreak of the war. Even at a less perturbed moment his voice would scarcely have been heard by many, and as it was misfortune early overtook the venture. The political crisis came, and with it a restriction of credit. The publishing house failed, after selling four or five thousand copies, and Whitman at forty-two seemed destined to be a voice vainly crying in the wilderness. CHAPTER IV COMRADESHIP (1861-1873) Whitman returned from Boston in June, 1860, and resumed his quiet life in his mother's house, but we have little further information regarding him until late in 1862. When, in April, 1861, the Civil War...
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Very Good. First edition, 1909. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles, gilt top edge, 175 pp. + ads., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling to the outer pages and to the page-edges, spine a bit mellowed, light rubbing or wear to the tips of the covers, no dust jacket.
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