Item #5472 WHITMAN; Edgar Lee Masters. Edgar Lee Masters.
WHITMAN; Edgar Lee Masters
WHITMAN; Edgar Lee Masters
WHITMAN; Edgar Lee Masters
WHITMAN; Edgar Lee Masters

WHITMAN; Edgar Lee Masters

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. B&W Photographs. First American Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo (61/8" x 8 7/8"), blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, B&W glossy photographic frontispiece of Walt Whitman, xii + 342 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Very Good / None. Item #5472

"Walt" Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is often called "the father of free verse." His most important work was Leaves of Grass
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868 – 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. His most famous work was The Spoon River Anthology. He also wrote biographies of Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and Walt Whitman.

See Edgar Lee Masters: An Exhibition, Humanities Research Center, (1968), #126: "Masters' 'importance as a poet is suggested in his eloquent interpretation of Whitman as prophet and poet. His excellence as a scholar is manifest in the philosophical and cultural structure he builds around Whitman....'"Very Good copy: tight, internally clean, slight wear, with light uniform age-toning. Gilt on spine is faded.

Price: $35.00

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