Walt Whitman; the Poet of the Wider Selfhood

Chicago: C.H. Kerr, 1903. 2nd Printing. 12mo with grey and black half-cloth boards; 4 preliminary leaves; [7]-145 pages; 20 cm Very good (-); clean and bright; prior owner signature on front pastedown and stamp to half title; some mild edgewear to boards; first signature is a tad loose; some darkening from bookmarks to endpapers and occasionally within book block. Hardcover.

Scarce. The self in literature and Whitman's poetry. Contents: A glimpse of the man. The copious personal self. The cosmic self. The eternal self. "Even these least". The larger woman. The larger man. Youth, maturity, age. Unity with nature. Democracy. America. Comradeship.