The (r)evolution of Walt Whitman : an exhibit in commemoration of the Roger Asselineau Walt Whitman Collection and in conjunction with the celebration of the Texas A&M University Libraries' three millionth volume.
| Format: | Photo |
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| Language: | English |
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[College Station, Texas] :
[Texas A&M University Libraries],
[2004]
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| Item Description: | For its three millionth volume in 2004, the Libraries received Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855) from John and Sara Lindsey, in its original green cloth binding and including the first state of the engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman. Roger Asselineau's work about Whitman was a critical biography, begun as his dissertation at the Sorbonne, L'évolution de Walt Whitman aprés la premiére édition des Feuilles d'herbe, first published in Paris by Didier in 1954, then in a two-volume English translation, The Evolution of Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1960-62), and finally in a slightly expanded edition, again titled The Evolution of Walt Whitman, with a foreword by edition Folsom, by the University of Iowa Press in 1999. Image of "Walt Whitman and the butterfly" taken in 1877 from Leaves of Grass II: The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, published: New York: Henry W. Knight, 1902. To foster the image of himself as one with nature, Whitman claimed that the insect was real and one of his "good friends." In fact, the die-cut cardboard butterfly was clearly a photographic prop, now in the collections of the Library of Congress, it was tucked into one of the first Whitman notebooks donated to the Library in 1918. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 poster : color ; 43 x 67 cm |
| Related Items: | Part of The Roger Asselineau Whitman Collection. |