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    Leaves of Grass
    Leaves of Grass
    Leaves of Grass
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    Leaves of Grass

    Written by Walt Whitman

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.

    In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.

    Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets—an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman “probably the greatest democrat that ever lived,” and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.”

    The text presented here is that of the “Deathbed” or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.

    With a foreword by Billy Collins, an afterword by Peter Davison, and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateJun 27, 2018
    ISBN9781982713751
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    Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman (1819–92) was an influential American poet and essayist, and is credited with being the founding father of free verse. He first published his culturally significant poetry collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ in 1855 from his own pocket, and revised and expanded it over thirty years. It is an essential element of America’s literary tradition, much taught in schools and universities around the world.

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      Whitman is a classic but that voice on the audiobook is harsh on the ears