On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman

On the Beach at Night Alone (Penguin Little Black Classics)

by Walt Whitman

'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'

A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Whitman's works available in Penguin Classics are Leaves of Grass and The Complete Poems.

Reviewed by wcs53 on

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I'm slowly working my way through my 80 books in the Penguin Little Black Classics series. This one wasn't all bad, but it was the kind of poetry that just isn't my style. It took me too long to get it read and I'm glad to move on to the next one, but I've committed to read them on order, so I have to take the good with the bad.

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