{"product_id":"9781587294785","title":"Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII","description":"In 1961 the first volume of Edwin Haviland Miller’s \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e was published in the newly established series the \u003ci\u003eCollected Writings of Walt Whitman\u003c\/i\u003e. Miller proceeded to publish five additional volumes of Whitman letters, and other leading scholars, including Roger Asselineau, compiled accompanying volumes of prose, poems, and daybooks. Yet by the late 1980s, the Whitman \u003ci\u003eCollected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e project was hopelessly scattered, fragmented, and incomplete.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now, more than forty years after the inaugural volume’s original publication, Ted Genoways brings scholars the latest volume in \u003ci\u003eWalt Whitman: The Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e. Incorporating all of the letters Miller had collected before his death in 2001 and combining them with more than a hundred previously unknown letters he himself gathered, Genoways’s volume is a perfect accompaniment to Miller’s original work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Among the more than one hundred fifty letters collected in this volume are numerous correspondences concerning Whitman’s Civil War years, including a letter sending John Hay, the personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, a manuscript copy of “O Captain, My Captain!” Additional letters address various aspects of the production of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, the most notable being an extensive correspondence surrounding the \u003ci\u003eDeathbed Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, gathered by Whitman’s friend Horace Traubel, and reproduced here for the first time. Most significantly, this volume at last incorporates Whitman’s early letters to Abraham Paul Leech, first published by Arthur Golden in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e in 1986. The revelations contained in these letters must be considered among the most important discoveries about Whitman’s life made during the last half of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Regardless of whether their significance is great or small, immediate or long-term, each new piece of Whitman’s correspondence returns us to a particular moment in his life and suggests the limitless directions that remain for Whitman scholarship.","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137876967664,"sku":"9781587294785","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587294785_p0.jpg?v=1763806250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587294785","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}