epic poetry, american

Contains two editions of Walt Whitman's collection of poems, including the 1855 first edition which contains twelve unnamed poems, and the 1891-92 "deathbed edition" which Whitman finished months before his death and includes almost four hundred poems.

A modern English translation of the epic of Gilgamesh, written in the third millennium B.C., telling of the great king of Uruk and his doomed friend.

Comprehensive study of Leaves of Grass showing how Whitman fashioned his work into America's "lyric-epic" of the self and of democracy.