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Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman (1993, Hardcover) 
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman (1993, Hardcover)

 
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman (1993, Hardcover)

Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 1993-10-01
Series: Modern Library Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679600760
ISBN-13: 9780679600763
Product ID: EPID61339
Description: LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's monumental and enormously influential book, was his life's work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous "deathbed edition" published the year he died (1892). Infl...
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LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's monumental and enormously influential book, was his life's work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous "deathbed edition" published the year he died (1892). Influenced by Eastern religions, his years as a journalist, the Civil War, 19th-century expansionism, Nature, the theater and opera, and his own liberal sexual attitudes, LEAVES OF GRASS is both a document set firmly in its time and a great transcendent work of art. It is also one of the most popular and accessible books of poems ever written, beloved since its first publication.

Details
Publication Date:1993-10-01
Series:Modern Library Series

Size
Length:703 pages
Height:7.5 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Publisher's Note
It is not only the allusions to sex and physiology that disturbed Whitman's critics but also his departure from the rules of conventional poetry. He broke down the standard metred line, discard the obligatory rhyming scheme, and freely expressed himself in the living vernacular of American speech.

Industry Reviews
"Whitman's best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years. Reading them a century after their publication, one feels the same shock and wonder and delight that Emerson felt when opening his presentation copy of the first edition. They carry us into a new world that Whitman discovered as if this very morning....After reading all of 'Leaves of Grass' as Whitman wished it to be preserved and after being won over by what I think is the best of it...I am willing to join the consensus that regards him as our most rewarding poet."
Malcolm Cowley

"I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of 'Leaves of Grass.' I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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