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Title: Do not buy this edition
Review: I compared this to many other editions and this edition is completely wrong, the structure of the poems is all messed up.It's such a pity considering Whitman's poetry that the people of Simon and Brown were not even able to print an edition that manages to respect something as simple as the spacing and lines of the poems.Here is an example of the Simon and Brown edition, exactly as it was printed by them:As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering,lingering long, A Phantom arouse before me with distrustful aspect,Terrible in beauty, age, and powerIt is painfully obvious that it should be, as I have seen in all other editions I consulted:As I ponder'd in silence,Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,Terrible in beauty, age, and power,The whole book was edited in this way, which makes it unreadable
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