Leaves Of Grass

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval but Emily Dickinson described its boldlanguage and themes as disgraceful. Ralph Waldo Emerson found it the mostextraordina... » 

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval but Emily Dickinson described its boldlanguage and themes as disgraceful. Ralph Waldo Emerson found it the mostextraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced. Publishedat the authors expense on July 4 1855 Leaves of Grass inaugurated a newvoice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimisticbombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many othereditions of Leaves of Grass which reproduce various short early versionsthis Modern Library Paperback Classics Deathbed edition presents everythingWhitman wrote in its final form and includes newly commissioned notes. Fromthe Trade Paperback edition. «