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Leaves of Grass: Selected Poems

Walt Whitman

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Leaves of Grass
is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style.

Whitman wrote about the United States and its people, its revolutionary spirit and about democracy. He wrote openly about the body and about desire in a way that completely broke with convention and which paved the way for a completely new kind of poetry. This new collection is taken from the final version, the Deathbed edition, and it includes his most famous poems such as 'Song of Myself' and 'I Sing the Body Electric'.

This edition is edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett.

Book Details

  • Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
  • Publish Date: Feb 5th, 2019
  • Pages: 360
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.00in - 4.00in - 0.80in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9781509887187
  • Categories: American - GeneralMovements - TranscendentalismSubjects & Themes - Animals & Nature

About the Author

Whitman, Walt: - Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the "father of free verse".