Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Hardcover
(INTERNATIONAL COLLECTOR LIBRA Jan. 1, 1972)
This book has been called the most audacious, most brilliant, most important work of poetry ever to come out of America. It has been with us for more than a century, yet its singing phrases remain as modern as tomorrow. The poem is Leaves of Grass-Walt Whitman's masterpiece, and America's song of itself. Leaves of Grass first saw print in 1855, when its author was 36 years old. It was a slim volume, and like most books by new poets, it went all but unnoticed by the reading public. Yet within a few years, two things began to happen; the poem's reputation started to grow-and so did its physical size, as Whitman added new long passages with each succeeding edition. It its pages, Whitman sang in a strong lyrical voice of himself, his nation, and all the physical universe. At the end of the Civil War,he composed an elegy to the slain President Lincoln-poem that will live till time ends. Here is a magnificent work by a major poet-a volume you will treasure for a lifetime.
- Pages
- 488
- Weight
- 10.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 5.4 in.
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