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Works of Walt Whitman: Inscriptions

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Whitman, Walt

Whitman, Walt
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Inscriptions

Background.

When Whitman made the final arrangement of Leaves of Grass, he place a
group of twenty-four poems, titled Inscriptions, at the beginning. These short
poems were first published between 1860 and 1881, and were included in the
various editions of Leaves of Grass as they appeared. The Inscriptions are
intended to identify the themes, directions, and range of ideas that the poet
explores in the large single poems and groups of poems that follow.

Themes.

Whitman begins his Inscriptions with "One's-Self I Sing." At the very
beginning, ...

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