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- Title
Osgood's Folly: The Sixth Edition of "Leaves of Grass."
- Authors
Loving, Jerome
- Abstract
This essay discusses the sixth edition of Walt Whitman's book "Leaves of Grass." It reveals that the Boston publisher James Ripley Osgood proposed the excision of sensual poems in the book. Whitman had agreed only to alter the poems making Osgood backed away from the contract. Whitman wrote an essay entitled "Walt Whitman: Is He Persecuted?" making the book the most influential collection of poetry. The author believes that the book never achieved universal acceptance in the poet's lifetime.
- Subjects
LEAVES of Grass (Book : Whitman); WHITMAN, Walt, 1819-1892; OSGOOD, James R.; AUTHOR-publisher relations; BOOK proposals; ROMANTICISM (Literary period); TRANSCENDENTALISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 2006, Vol 24, Issue 2/3, p117
- ISSN
0737-0679
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.13008/2153-3695.1819