Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and
immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came
with "Leaves of Grass."
Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event
in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one
of America's greatest poets--an exuberant, passionate man who loved
his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman
was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire.
Thoreau called Whitman "probably the greatest democrat that ever
lived," and Emerson judged "Leaves of Grass" as "the most
extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed."
The text presented here is that of the "Deathbed" or ninth edition
of "Leaves of Grass," published in 1892. The content and grouping
of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final
and complete edition of his masterpiece.
With a foreword by Billy Collins, an afterword by Peter Davison,
and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink
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