Leaves of Grass The Deathbed Edition Author:Walt Whitman Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass took various forms during the poets lifetime. The 1855 first edition was a thin pamphlet of 12 poems; the great final edition encompassed more than 300. It is the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass - commonly called "the Deathbed Edition" - that remains the bard's definitive version of what is indisputably an Americ... more »an classic. This special edition of Leaves of Grass has been prepared in observance of the 100th anniversary of Whitman's death (March 26, 1892) and contains the entire "Deathbed Edition."« less