Walt Whitman. The Whole Present System … [broadside] Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, [1972].
Title
Walt Whitman. The Whole Present System … [broadside] Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, [1972].
Subject
Walt Whitman
Description
Walt Whitman. The Whole Present System … [broadside] Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, [1972].
The text, quoted from Whitman’s footnote in Democratic Vistas, reads: “The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope’s council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud.”
Credits printed along the foot read: “Published by David R. Godine, 282 Newton Street, The Barn, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146 / Printed in Photogravure by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, on a Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland / Calligraphy by Bram De Does”.
The text, quoted from Whitman’s footnote in Democratic Vistas, reads: “The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope’s council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud.”
Credits printed along the foot read: “Published by David R. Godine, 282 Newton Street, The Barn, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146 / Printed in Photogravure by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, on a Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland / Calligraphy by Bram De Does”.
Publisher
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Date
1972
Rights
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Language
English
Type
Still Image
Files
Citation
“Walt Whitman. The Whole Present System … [broadside] Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, [1972].,” DeGolyer Library Exhibits, accessed May 2, 2024, https://degolyer.omeka.net/items/show/873.