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Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems (Volume I [1]: Poems, 1855-1856)
Leaves of Grass A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems Poems 18551856 - Volume I 1
Author: Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life.Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading [Leaves of Grass...  more »], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."
ISBN-13: 9780814710142
ISBN-10: 081471014X
Publication Date: 10/1/1980
Pages: 272
Edition: First
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Publisher: New York University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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