Walt Whitman
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Series
Description
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many...
2) Walt Whitman
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Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.