Leaves of Grass
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Presents Whitman's classic poem celebrating himself and the American experience.
Beautiful hardcover volume features "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," other poems from original 1855 edition of the controversial masterpiece that continues to redefine conventional notions of beauty and originality.
He demonstrates that an aesthetically maturing Whitman, in this work, was finally able to harmoniously bring together his individual and social subject matter.
One of the best books of all time, Whitman's Leaves of Grass. If you haven't read this classic already, then you're missing out - read Leaves of Grass by Whitman today!
... Leaves of Grass were being issued . The title - pages of the non- variant wrapper and cloth - bound and the variant cloth - bound copies of the 1891-2 Leaves of Grass are identical.11 Whitman's final statement on the text of Leaves of Grass ...
A beautiful new edition of Whitman's masterpiece.
... Leaves. Marki, Ivan. The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of “Leaves of Grass.” New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. The 1855 Leaves is not a collection of discrete statements but “a single poetic argument ...