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- The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman
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- 2017
- Published by: University Press of New England
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From his earliest days on Long Island and in New York City to his last years in Camden, New Jersey, Walt Whitman lived close to the sea he knew and loved. The “liquid-flowing syllables” of Whitman’s poetry and prose tell specific stories of particular voyages and known shores, as well as vivid flights of imagination and keening paeans to wild winds, dark water, stormy and quiet airs. The land, for Whitman, is both immutable and still, while the sea is a realm of dynamic change, mercurial temper, and the ebb and flow of cosmic uncertainty. From “Mannahatta” to “Poem of Joys” to the magisterial ode to the slain President Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” Whitman wove the strands of nautical lexicon and powerful imagery into the tapestry of our national literature. In The Sea Is a Continual Miracle, poet and editor Jeffrey Yang has compiled an invaluable resource for readers, students, and scholars of Whitman, and demonstrates how seeing him through sea glass shows America’s best-loved poet in a new light.
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- Introduction | Apologia for the Sea
- pp. xvii-xxxvi
- A Note on the Text
- pp. xxxvii-xxxviii
- The Mississippi at Midnight
- pp. 3-4
- from Leaves of Grass (1855)
- pp. 5-36
- from Leaves of Grass (1856)
- pp. 37-38
- 3. from Poem of Salutation
- pp. 39-44
- 11. Sun-Down Poem
- pp. 45-51
- 24. Poem of Perfect Miracles
- pp. 52-53
- 28. Bunch Poem
- pp. 54-55
- from Leaves of Grass (1860–61)
- pp. 63-64
- from Proto-Leaf
- pp. 65-68
- from Chants Democratic and Native American
- from Leaves of Grass
- 4. "Something startles me"
- pp. 72-73
- Poem of Joys
- pp. 74-81
- A Word Out of the Sea
- pp. 82-89
- from Enfans d’Adam
- from Calamus
- 13. "Calamus taste"
- p. 96
- Longings for Home
- pp. 100-101
- from Messenger Leaves
- To Old Age
- p. 102
- Mannahatta
- pp. 102-104
- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
- pp. 107-109
- City of Ships
- p. 109
- World, Take Good Notice
- p. 111
- O Captain! My Captain!
- p. 114
- from Leaves of Grass (1867)
- pp. 115-116
- from Starting from Paumanok
- pp. 117-119
- from Children of Adam
- From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
- pp. 120-122
- from Song of the Open Road
- pp. 123-124
- Respondez!
- pp. 125-128
- from Songs Before Parting
- from As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores
- pp. 129-130
- Song at Sunset
- pp. 131-134
- from Inscriptions
- In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
- pp. 137-138
- from Songs of Insurrection
- France, the 18th Year of These States
- pp. 139-140
- from Passage to India
- Passage to India
- pp. 141-151
- from Whispers of Heavenly Death
- from Leaves of Grass
- Warble for Lilac-Time
- pp. 153-154
- from Now Finale to the Shore
- Now Finale to the Shore
- pp. 154-155
- The Untold Want
- pp. 154-155
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
- p. 155
- from As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
- pp. 155-156
- As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
- pp. 156-161
- O Star of France!
- pp. 162-163
- By Broad Potomac’s Shore
- p. 164
- The Beauty of the Ship
- p. 167
- from Two Rivulets
- pp. 167-168
- Two Rivulets
- pp. 168-169
- Or from That Sea of Time
- pp. 170-171
- Spain, 1873–74
- p. 179
- Prayer of Columbus
- pp. 180-184
- from Leaves of Grass (1881–82)
- pp. 185-186
- Sea-Drift
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- pp. 187-193
- As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
- pp. 194-196
- To the Man-of-War-Bird
- p. 198
- Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
- p. 199
- On the Beach at Night
- pp. 200-201
- Patroling Barnegat
- p. 204
- After the Sea-Ship
- p. 204
- from Autumn Rivulets
- As Consequent, Etc.
- pp. 205-206
- from Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83)
- pp. 207-208
- My Passion for Ferries
- pp. 211-212
- An Interregnum Paragraph
- pp. 212-213
- A July Afternoon by the Pond
- pp. 213-214
- from Autumn Side-Bits
- pp. 214-215
- A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
- pp. 215-216
- Sea-Shore Fancies
- pp. 216-217
- A Two-Hours’ Ice-Sail
- pp. 217-218
- An Afternoon Scene
- p. 218
- A Sun-Bath—Nakedness
- pp. 218-221
- A Jaunt Up the Hudson
- p. 221
- Manhattan from the Bay
- pp. 221-222
- A Night Remembrance
- pp. 222-223
- Delaware River—Days and Nights
- pp. 223-224
- An Ulster County Waterfall
- pp. 229-230
- Hudson River Sights
- pp. 230-231
- Departing of the Big Steamers
- pp. 231-233
- Swallows on the River
- p. 233
- New Senses—New Joys
- pp. 233-234
- Earth’s Most Important Stream
- pp. 234-235
- Nights on the Mississippi
- pp. 235-236
- A Hint of Wild Nature
- p. 236
- Seeing Niagara to Advantage
- pp. 236-237
- The St. Lawrence Line
- pp. 237-238
- The Savage Saguenay
- p. 238
- Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay
- p. 239
- My Native Sand and Salt Once More
- pp. 239-240
- An Ossianic Night—Dearest Friends
- pp. 240-241
- Only a New Ferry Boat
- pp. 241-242
- from Leaves of Grass (1891–92)
- pp. 243-244
- from Sands at Seventy
- From Montauk Point
- p. 245
- A Font of Type
- p. 245
- Fancies at Navesink
- The Voice of the Rain
- p. 252
- Twenty Years
- p. 252
- The Dismantled Ship
- p. 253
- from Good-Bye My Fancy
- Lingering Last Drops
- p. 254
- An Ended Day
- p. 255
- Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
- p. 256
- To the Sun-set Breeze
- p. 256
- A Twilight Song
- p. 257
- A Voice from Death
- pp. 258-259
- A Persian Lesson
- p. 260
- Grand Is the Seen
- p. 261
- “There is a river . . .” (Date Unknown)
- pp. 263-264
- Index of Titles
- pp. 277-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9781512600605
Related ISBN(s)
9781512600599, 9781611689228
MARC Record
OCLC
968246517
Pages
279
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-02
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017