David McKay: Whitman's Final Publisher.

This essay presents the final edition of Walt Whitman's book "Leaves of Grass." It was revealed that the edition made significant modification despite Whitman's request for fidelity to the final version. Whitman and David McKay's relationship and its impact on the revisions of the book was discussed...

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Publicado en:	Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Vol. 24; no. 2/3; pp. 125 - 140
Autor principal:	Green, Charles
Formato:	Essay
Publicado:	University of Iowa Fall/2006/Winter2007
Materias:	Mackay, David Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Leaves of Grass (Book : Whitman) Author-publisher relations Scholars Romanticism (Literary period) Transcendentalism (Literary period)
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Sumario:	This essay presents the final edition of Walt Whitman's book "Leaves of Grass." It was revealed that the edition made significant modification despite Whitman's request for fidelity to the final version. Whitman and David McKay's relationship and its impact on the revisions of the book was discussed. It declares that Whitman trusted McKay as a publisher and McKay's betrayal to Whitman's work caused confusion among scholars. McKay argues that the 1900 edition serves as a tribute to Whitman.