Thread: Literary The MR Literary Club January 2012 Vote
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Old 01-14-2012, 05:55 PM   #23
WT Sharpe
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Originally Posted by sun surfer View Post
Is this formatted well? Or has anyone read any other versions and can speak to how they're formatted?

I'm trying to decide whether to read this e-book or p-book. Of course I'd prefer e-book, but I'd want it to be formatted just as the author intended for poetry.
That one seems to be formatted pretty well, and has some interesting annotations.

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There are multiple versions? Even though Whitman died in 1892? Anyway I will be reading my hardcover (150th Anniversary Edition; April 15, 2005 by Oxford University Press, USA) edition.

WT Sharpe did you have any subset of poems that you envisioned forming a core for discussion, or just the whole book?
That sounds like a fine version as well. As to any particular poems or subset of poems, I say what ever strikes your fancy. I find his open views on sexuality at a time when such subjects were not mentioned in polite society is one topic worth exploring. It's interesting that the man frequently dubbed "America's Poet" was so open about his homosexual, or perhaps more accurately, bi-sexual encounters in his work.

Since this is my first time taking part in the Literary Book Club, when does the discussion start?
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