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Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1891 (3-Volume Set) (The collected writings of Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems 18551891 - 3-Volume Set - The collected writings of Walt Whitman
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: 9780814710241
ISBN-10: 0814710247
Publication Date: 10/1/1980
Pages: 944
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: New York University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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