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Main entry under title:
Walt Whitman: here and now.

Proceedings of a scholarly conference held at
Hofstra University.

"Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University."
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.

1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and inter-
pretation--Congresses. I. Krieg, Joann P. II. Hofstra
University.

PS3238.W355 1985 811 ′.3 85-922
ISBN 0-313-24895-8 (lib. bdg.)

Copyright © 1985 by Hofstra University

"Whitman's World View: A Contemporaneous Message"
copyright © 1985 by Howard L. Parsons

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-922
ISBN: 0-313-24895-8

First published in 1985

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Copyright Acknowledgments

Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from Leaves of Grass are reprinted by permission of
New York University Press from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Reader's Comprehensive
Edition, edited by Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley. Copyright © 1965 by New York
University.

Other quotations are reprinted from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; Introduction and
Notes by Malcolm Cowley copyright © 1959 by the Viking Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission
of Viking Penguin, Inc.

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