Leaves of Grass
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
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- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780241303122
- ISBN10 0241303125
- Type BOOK
- Pages 208
- Collection Clothbound Classics #
- Published 2017
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Leaves of Grass
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.