FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE BOOK FILE--L of G (reprint 1902) Advertising pamphlets. Box 22 Folder 24The Writings of Walt Whitman Camden Edition Walt WhitmanThe Complete Writing of Walt Whitman Camden Edition Limited to 1000 signed and numbered Sets With 40 Illustrations reproduced in Photogravure This set of the Writing of Walt Whitman will, it is believed, be accepted as the definite edition of the works of this characteristic author, an author whose repute has grown from decade to decade, and whose readers on both sides of the Atlantic are undoubtedly very much more numerous in the twentieth century than at the time when Whitman's literary work was being done. It is sold to subscribers only. THIS set has been prepared under the editorial supervision of his literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, Horace L. Traubel, and Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, and is here presented in an edition for which the type has been entirely reset, and which contains also important additions to the text, and many illustrations not before printed. Dr. Bucke, one of the older friends and associates of the author, IThe Complete Writings of Walt Whitman Camden Edition Limited to 1000 signed and numbered sets With 40 illustrations reproduced in Photogravure This set of the Writings of Walt Whitman will, it is believed, be accepted as the definite edition of the works of this characteristic author, an author whose repute has grown from decade to decade, and whose readers on bot sides of the Atlantic are undoubtedly very much more numerous in the twentieth century than at the time when Whitman's literary work was being done. It is sold to subscribers only. THIS set has been prepared under the editorial supervision of his literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, Horace L. Traubel, and Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, and is here presented in an edition for which the type has been entirely reset. and which contains also important additions to the text, and many illustrations not before printed. Dr.Bucke, one of the older friends and associates of the author, I The Writings of Walt Whitman has lot lived to see the completion of this reissue of works with which his own labors had for years been associated. The publishers have, however, had the advantage in the preparation of their set of valuable suggestions from him, and are also able to include in the later volumes certain notes selected from his own series of Commentaries. The publishers are also fortunate in being able to include in the set important bibliographical and critical material prepared by Professor Oscar L. Triggs, of the University of Chicago. The work of Professor Triggs has included a careful study of the Variorum Readings. Professor Triggs also includes certain poems omitted from the earlier editions, together with bibliographical information in regard to the record of the production of these poems. This edition is issued by special arrangement with Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co., the authorized publishers of the writings of Walt Whitman. Whitman's theory of his life-poem has been carried out with strength, and forms one of the best examples of poetic development afforded in modern literature. Its assertions of comradeship, pioneer manliness, the essential wholesomeness and nobility of the American character, the self-reliant and self- preserving nature of democracy, the worthlessness of feudalism, the dangers of the merely conventional, the possibilities of the future of "These States," are The Writings of Walt Whitman excellent. The title of poet is not the be denied to him who wrote "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Pioneers, O Pioneers," "To the Man-of-war Bird," "Come up from the Fields, Father," "The City Dead - House," "Proud Music of the Storm," "Whispers of Heavenly Death," or, best of all, the remarkable commemorative poems "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain, my Captain." Whitman is the fittest of all laureates of Lincoln, whose greatness the years are making plainer; and in his non-personal and non- martial verse he is never to be accounted less than an original and significantly interesting bard. G.P. Putnam's Sons Publishers New York LondonThe Writing of Walt Whitman Estimates of Eminent Critics concerning Whitman's Place in Literature EDWARD DOWDEN "In Whitman we meet a man not shaped out of old-world clay, not cast in any old-world mould, and hard to name by any old-world name. In his self-assertion there is a manner of powerful nonchalantness which is not assumed' he does not peep timidly form behind his works to glean our suffrages, but seems to say: "take me or leaves me here I am a solid and not an inconsiderable fact of the universe.' He disturbs our classi- fications. He attracts us; he repels us; he excites our curiosity, wonder, admiration, love; or, our extreme repugnance. He does anything except leave us indifferent. However we feel towards him, we cannot despise him. He is 'a summons and a challenge.' He must be understood, and so accepted, or must be got rid of. Passed by he cannot be . . . . He is the first representative democrat in art of the American continent. Not that he is to be regarded as a model or a guide; great principles and great passions which which must play their part in the future are to be found in his writings, but these have not yet cleared themselves from their amorphous surroundings. at the same time he is before all else a living man, and must not be compelled to appear as mere official representative of anything. He will not be comprehended in a formula. No view of him can image the substance, the life and movement of his manhood, which contracts and dilates, and is all over sensitive and vital. . . . As in all else, so with regard to the form of what he writes, Walt Whitman can find no authority superior to himself, or rather to the rights of the subject which engages him. There is, as Mr. Rossetti has observed, ' a very powerful and majestic rhythmical sense' throughout his writings, prose and verse (if 4 The Writings of Walt Whitman we consent to apply the term verse to any of them), and this rhythmical sense, as with every great poet, is original and inborn. His works, it may be, exhibit no perfect crystal or artistic form, but each is a menstruum saturated with form in solution. He fears to lose the instinctive in any process of elaboration, the vital in anything which looks like mechanism . . . . One feels, as it has been well said, that although no counting of syllables will reveal the mechanism of the music, the music is there, and that "one would not for something change ears with those who cannot hear it." . . . Nevertheless, when we read not the lyrical portions of Whitman's poetry, but what may be called his poetical statements of thoughts and things, a suspicion arises that if the form be suitable here to the matter, it must be because the matter belongs rather to the chaos than the kosmos of the new created world of art. ESSAY FROM "THE CRITIC" "One great anomaly of Whitman's case has been, that white he is an aggressive champion of democracy and of the working-man, in a broad sense of the term working-man, his admirers have been almost exclusively of a class that farthest possibly removed from that which labors for daily bread by manual work. Whitman has always been truly caviare to the multitude. It was only those who knew much of poetry and loved it greatly who penetrated the singular shell of his voices and rejoiced in the rich, pulpy kernel. Even the connoisseurs, Whitman has been somewhat of an acquired taste. . . . A cardinal sin in the eyes of most critics is the use of French, Spanish, and American-Spanish words, which are scattered here and there, as if Whitman has picked them up, sometimes slightly incorrectly, from wandering minstrels, Cubans, or fugitives from one of Walker's raids. He shows crudely the American way of incorporating into he language a handy or a high-sounding word without elaborate examination of its original meaning, just as we absorb the different nationalities that crowd over from Europe. His thought and his mode of expression are 5 immense, often flat, very often monotonous, like our great sprawling cities with their endless scattering of suburbs. Yet when one gets the 'hang' of it, there is a colossal grandeur in conception and execution that must finally convince whoever will be patient enough to look for it. His rhythm, so much burlesqued, is all of a part with the man and his ideas. It is apparently confused, really most carefully schemed, certainly to a high degree original. It has what to the present writer is the finest thing in the music of Wagner, - a great booming movement or undertone. like the noise of heavy surf... He certainly represents, as no other writer in the world, the struggling, plundering, sound-hearted, somewhat coarse, but still magnificent vanguard of Western civiization that is encamped in the United States". R.L. STEVENSON "In spite of an uneven and emphatic key of expression, something trenchant and straightforward, something simple and surprising, distinguishes his poems. He has sayings that come home to one like the Bible. We fall upon Whitman after the works of so many men who write better, with a sense of relief from strain, with a sense of touching nature, as when one passes out of the flaring, noisy thoroughfares of a great city into what he himself has called, with unexcelled imaginative justice of language, 'the huge and thoughtful night'. Whitman's ideal man must not only be strong, free, and self-reliant in himself, but his freedom must be bounded and his strength perfected by the most intimate, eager, and long-suffering love for others. Whitman has reasoned that in treating life in a high, magnanimous spirit, he would make sure of belief, and at the same time encourage people forward by the means of praise". JOHN BURROUGHS "Nine-tenths of his admirers are the sturdiest men in the fields of art, science, and literature... it is on the rank, human, and emotional side - sex, magnetism, health, physique, etc. - 6 that Whitman is so full. The appearance of such a man as Whitman involved deep world forces of race and time. I look upon Whitman as the one mountain thus far in our literary land-scape. To me he changes the whole aspect, almost the very climate, of our literature. He adds the much-needed rugged-ness, breadth, audacity, independence, and the elements of primal strength and health. His though fosters manly endeavor and the great virtues of sanity and self-reliance." PROFESSOR CLIFFORD Of Whitman, Professor Clifford says: "He is more thor-oughly in harmony with the spirit and letter of advanced scientism than any other living poet". PROFESSOR SYMONDS Professor Symonds finds him "eminently Greek in the sense in which to be natural and self-regulated by the law of perfect health". SAINTE-BEUVE Sainte-Beuve, writing in the Reuve des Deux Mondes, pro-nounced Whitman's war poems "the most vivid, the most humanely passionate, the most modern of all the verse of the nineteenth century". FREILIGRATH Freiligrath translated Whitman into German, and hailed him as "the founder of a new democratic and modern order of poetry, greater than the old". 7 Illustrations THE Illustrations will consist of many ex-tremely interesting and valuable photo-gravure plates, on genuine Japan Vellum, the larger portion of which have never before been engraved. Among these are Nineteen Portraits of Whitman - a number of these very rare; also a number of other portraits and views never before included in any edition of Whitman's Works. Paper THE Paper used in the CAMDEN EDITION is "OLD STRATFORD LINEN" of splen-did quality, manufactured to order for this set. This paper is a rare combination of lightness and strength, soft and agreeable to the eye and the touch, yet sufficiently firm to develop the letterpress to the utmost perfection. The deckle edges also contribute to a most effective result, for which nothing of time, skill, or money has been spared. 8 Arrangement of the Material Volumes I. - III. LIFE OF WHITMAN, by his Literary Ex-ecutors. LEAVES OF GRASS. VARIORUM READINGS OF Leaves of Grass. Volumes IV. - VIII. COMPLETE PROSE WORKS, including series of Letter heretofore issued under titles of "Calamus" and "The Wound Dresser"; certain letters to his mother, hitherto unpublished; and THREE ESSAYS ON WHITMAN by Thomas B. Harned. Volume IX.-X. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS, by the late Richard Maurice Bucke. AN ESSAY ON THE GROWTH OF THE LEAVES OF GRASS, and a COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Oscar. L. Triggs. Ph.D. Leaves of Grass --- Sometimes with One I Love. SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love, But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another, (I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd. Yet out of that I have written these songs.) To a Western Boy. MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine ; Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins. If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers, Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine? Fast=Anchor'd Eternal O Love ! FAST-ANCHOR'D eternal O love ! O woman I love ! O bride ! O wife ! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you ! Then separate, as disembodied or another born, Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation, I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man, O sharer of my roving life. [160] SAMPLE PAGE Showing Paper, Type, Leaf, etc. Specimen Days ---- Fourteenth Street north, slowly wending along, bearing a large lot of wounded to the hospitals. Battle of Gettysburg July 4th. - The weather to-day, upon the whole, is very fine, warm, but from a smart rain last night, fresh enough, and no dust, which is a great relief for this city. I saw the parade about noon, Pennsylvania Avenue, from Fifteenth Street down toward the capitol. There were three regiments of infantry, (I suppose the ones doing patrol duty here,) two or three societies of Odd Fellows, a lot of children in barouches, and a squad of policemen. (A useless imposition upon the soldiers--they have work enough on their backs without piling the likes of this.) As I went down the Avenue, saw a big flaring placard on the bulletin board of a newspaper office, announcing "Glorious Victory for the Union Army !" Meade had fought Lee at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, yesterday and day before, and repuls'd him most signally, taken 3,000 prisoners, &c. (I afterwards saw Meade's despatch, very modest, and a sort of order of the day from the President himself, quite religious, giving thanks to the Supreme, and calling on the people to do the same.) I walk'd on to Armory hospital--took along with me several bottles of blackberry and cherry syrup, good and strong, but innocent. Went through several of the wards, announc'd to the soldiers the news from Meade, and gave them all a good drink of the Vol. IV.-5 [65] SAMPLE PAGE Showing Paper, Type, Leaf, etc.Horace Traubel : Two Hundred South Tenth Street, Philadelphia A LEAVES OF GRASS REPRINT Philadelphia, 1902. I propose to publish in fac-simile Walt Whitman's personal copy of Leaves of Grass, edition of 1860-1861, in which he did much of the work of revision for the edition that followed five years later. The sample page accompanying will indicate the nature of the task I have undertaken. This copy of Leaves of Grass is historic. It is the volume abstracted by Secretary Harlan from Whitman's desk in the Interior Department and made the basis for Whitman's discharge from that branch of the service. An account of this incident, written by Whitman himself, will be photographically reproduced and included. The edition will be limited to five hundred copies. The price fixed will be ten dollars for each copy. No books will be sent to editors for review and no rebates or discounts will be allowed to collectors or booksellers. The text matter of this book will be printed from theoriginal plates, which still exist. The chirographical matter in Whitman's hand will be superimposed. In order to maintain a strict likeness to the original, in which Whitman used black ink and pencils of several colors, it will be necessary for each sheet to go through the press from three to five times. This is a costly process. The production of this work calls for the finest skill of the photographer, the engraver and the printer. But it will be faithfully supervised to the remotest particulars. The page herewith presented graphically indicates the difficulties to be encountered and the competency of the artists employed. Each volume will be authenticated by a number and my signature. Subscriptions will be filled in the order they are received. To persons who have a special interest in Whitman, as well as to students and libraries (particularly to the libraries of schools and colleges), this remarkable reprint must have unusual significance. No steps will be practically taken in this matter until subscriptions sufficient to cover the initial expenses are received. HORACE TRAUBEL. A LEAVES OF GRASS REPRINT 1902 To HORACE TRAUBEL: Two Hundred South Tenth Street, Philadelphia Please reserve for me copy copies of your facsimile reproduction of Walt Whitman's personal copy of the 1860-1861 edition of Leaves of Grass, for which I am to pay dollars on delivery A LEAVES OF GRASS REPRINT 1902 To HORACE TRAUBEL: Two Hundred South Tenth Street, Philadelphia Please reserve for me copy copies of your fac-simile reproduction of Walt Whitman's personal copy of the 1860-1861 edition of Leaves of Grass, for which I am to pay dollars on delivery.original plates, which still exist. The chirographical matter in Whitman's hand will be superimposed. In order to main- tain a strict likeness to the original, in which Whitman used black ink and pencils of several colors, it will be necessary for each sheet to go through the press from three to five times. This is a costly process. The production of this work calls for the finest skill of the photographer, the engraver, and the printer. But it will be faithfully supervised to the remotest particulars. The page herewith presented graphically indicates the difficulties to be encountered and the competency of the artists employed. Each volume will be authenticated by a number and my signature. Subscriptions will be filled in the order they are received. To persons who have a special interest in Whitman, as well as to students and libraries (particularly to the libraries of schools and colleges), this remarkable reprint must have unusual significance. No steps will be practically taken in this matter until subscriptions sufficient to cover the initial expenses are re- ceived. HORACE TRAUBEL. TITLE PAGE Leaves of GRASS Boston. Thayer and Eldridge, Year 85 of The States. (1860-61)SAMPLE PAGE ? [Apostroph Democratis] [*tr to [?] trips*] [*take this piece out altogether*] [CHANTS DEMOCRATIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN.] [*tr to Drum taps*] [*O brood continental (apostroph)*] [Apostroph.] [O mater! O fils!] O brood continental! [*[?] of the future!*] [O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products!] O you teeming cities! [O so] invincible; turbulent, proud! [O race of the future! O women! O fathers!] O [yon] men of passion and the storm! [O native power only! O beauty! [*[year?]*] O yourself! O God! O divine average! O you bearded roughs! O bards!] O all those slumberers! O [Arouse!] arouse! the dawn-bird's throat [sounds] pours shrill! [Do you not hear the cock crowing?] [exultant] [O] O Arouse! as I walk'd the beach, I heard the mournful notes foreboding a tempest -- I heard the low, oft-repeated shriek of the diver, the long-lived loon[;] (105)LEAVES An Important of Undertaking GRASS PRELIMINARY Whitman ANNOUNCEMENT I. Sold by Subscription Only PUTNAM The Complete Works of Walt Whitman 10 vols., octavo, illustrated New York G. P. Putnam's Sons LondonWalt Whitman G.P. Putnam's Sons announce that they have now in active preparation for early publication, an entirely new and complete edition of the Writings of Walt Whitman. Special attention is directed to the fact that this is not a reissue from old plates. The Complete Works of Whitman, prepared under the editorial supervision of his literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, Horace L. Traubel, and Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, are here presented in an edition for which the type has been entirely reset, and which contains also important additions to the text, and certain illustrations not before printed. Dr. Bucke, one of the older friends and associates of the author, has not lived to see the completion of this reissue of works with which his own labors had for years been associated. The publishers have, however, had the advantage in the preparation of their set of valuable suggestions from him, and are also able to include int he later volumes certain notes selected from his own series of Commentaries. The publishers are also fortunate in being to include in the set important bibliographical and critical material prepared by Professor Oscar L. Triggs, of the University of Chicago. The work of Professor Triggs has included a careful study of the Variorum Readings. Professor Triggs also includes certain poems omitted from the earlier editions, together with bibliographical information in regard to the record of the production of these poems. The set will, it is believed, be accepted as the definite edition of the works of this characteristic author, an author whose repute has grown from decade to decade, Complete Works of Walt Whitman and whose readers on both sides of the Atlantic are undoubtedly very much more numerous in the twentieth century than at the time when Whitman's literary work was being done. A recent critic, Mr. Edmund Holmes, speaks of Whitman as follows: As Whitman sees the whole of Humanity in each individual man, so he sees the whole of Nature in each individual thing; and he seriously believes that in crowding his pages with lists of material things, he is representing Reality in all its splendor and beauty. The form of his poetry has to adapt itself to his conception of Nature and of Art. . . . If he is to give utterance to all the feelings that reveal themselves in the fierce light of his extreme self-consciousness, if he is to pour them all out as he feels or seems to feel them, he must free himself from the trammels of rhyme and metre. There is another reason, as we can see, why he should discard all conventional restrictions. If poetry is to be used for purposes which are frankly, and even grossly, prosaic, its outward form must be able and ready to sink, at a moment's notice, to the level of ordinary prose. Whitman's recitative admirably fulfils this requirement, and at its best it is singularly impressive. The works will comprise the following material, much of this being now for the first time brought together: Leaves of Grass - Three Volumes The Complete Prose Works - Five Volumes including the volumes of Letters heretofore issued under the titles of "Calamus" and "The Wound Dresser" Variorum Readings - Two Volumes Rejected poems Essays on the Growth of the Leaves of Grass and Bibliography by Professor Oscar L. Triggs, University of Chicago The first volume of the Leaves of Grass contains a specially prepared Life of Whitman by his literary executors, Complete Works of Walt Whitman Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. The set will be issued in ten fine octavo volumes, printed from large Cadmus type. The work will be executed in the best style of The Knickerbocker Press on the finest paper, made specially for this purpose. It will further contain many extremely interesting and valuable photogravure plates, the larger portion of which have never before been engraved. Among these are Nineteen Portraits of Whitman - a number of these very rare; also a number of other Portraits and Views never before included in any edition of Whitman's Works. The Camden Limited Edition will be issued in ten octavo volumes. But 1000 numbered and signed sets will be printed, and for these the paper used will be Old Stratford Linen, made specially for this set of books. The Photogravure Plates will be printed upon India or Japan paper. The Binding will be as follows: A. 10 vols. Quarter Vellum, gilt top, per vol. . . . $6.00 B. 10 vols. Three-quarter Levant, gilt top, per vol. . 10.00 C. 10 vols. Full Levant, gilt top, per vol. . . . . 20.00 G. P. Putnam's Sons New York LondonLEAVES of GRASS Whitman I. PUTNAM An Important Undertaking PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT Sold by Subscription Only The Complete Works of Walt Whitman 10 vols., octavo, illustrated New York G. P. Putnam's Sons LondonWalt Whitman G. P. Putnam's Sons announce that they have now in active preparation for early publication, an entirely new and complete edition of the Writings of Walt Whitman. Special attention is directed to the fact that this is not a reissue from old plates. The Complete Works of Whitman, prepared under the editorial supervision of his literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, Horace L. Traubel, and Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, are here presented in an edition for which the type has been entirely reset, and which contains also important additions to the text, and certain illustrations not before printed. Dr. Bucke, one of the older friends and associates of the author, has not lived to see the completion of this reissue of works with which his own labors had for years been associated. The publishers have, however, had the advantage in the preparation of their set of valuable suggestions from him, and are also able to include in the later volumes certain notes selected from his own series of Commentaries. The publishers are also fortunate in being able to include in the set important bibliographical and critical material prepared by Professor Oscar L. Triggs, of the University of Chicago. The work of Professor Triggs has included a careful study of the Variorum Readings. Professor Triggs also includes certain poems omitted from the earlier editions, together with bibliographical information in regard to the record of the publication of these poems. The set will, it is believed, be accepted as the definite edition of the works of this characteristic author, an author whose repute has grown from decade to decade, Complete Works of Walt Whitman and whose readers on both sides of the Atlantic are undoubtedly very much more numerous in the twentieth century than at the time when Whitman's literary work was being done. A recent critic, Mr. Edmund Holmes, speaks of Whitman as follows: As Whitman sees the whole of Humanity in each individual man, so he sees the whole of Nature in each individual thing; and he seriously believes that in crowding his pages with lists of material things, he is representing Reality in all its splendor and beauty. The form of his poetry has to adapt itself to his conception of Nature and of Art. . . . If he is to give utterance to all the feelings that reveal themselves in the fierce light of his extreme self-consciousness, if he is to pour them all out as he feels or seems to feel them, he must free himself from the trammels of rhyme and metre. There is another reason, as we can see, why he should discard all conventional restrictions. If poetry is to be used for purposes which are frankly, and even grossly, prosaic, its outward form must be able and ready to sink, at a moment's notice, to the level of ordinary prose. Whitman's recitative admirably fulfils this requirement, and at its best it is singularly impressive. The Works will comprise the following material, much of this being now for the first time brought together: Leaves of Grass - Three Volumes The Complete Prose Works - Five Volumes including the volumes of Letters heretofore issued under the titles of "Calamus" and "The Wound Dresser" Variorum Readings - Two Volumes Rejected Poems Essays on the Growth of the Leaves of Grass and Bibliography by Professor Oscar L. Triggs, University of Chicago The first volume of The Leaves of Grass contains a specially prepared Life of Whitman by his literary executors, Complete Works of Walt Whitman Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. The set will be issued in ten fine octavo volumes, printed from large Cadmus type. The work will be executed in the best style of The Knickerbocker Press on the finest paper, made specially for this purpose. It will further contain many extremely interesting and valuable photogravure plates, the larger portion of which have never before been engraved. Among these are Nineteen Portraits of Whitman - a number of these very rare; also a number of other Portraits and Views never before included in any edition of Whitman's Works. The Camden Limited Edition will be issued in ten octavo volumes. But 1000 numbered and signed sets will be printed, and for these the paper used will be Old Stratford Linen, made specially for this set of books. The Photogravure Plates will be printed upon India or Japan paper. The Binding will be as follows: A. 10 vols. Quarter Vellum, gilt top, per vol. . . . $6.00 B. 10 vols. Three-quarter Levant, gilt top, per vol. . 10.00 C. 10 vols. Full Levant, gilt top, per vol. . . . . 20.00 G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London