When Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" in 1855 it was a
slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from
Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To
give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent
his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial
act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a
national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer.
This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout
Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891,
short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of "Leaves of
Grass," and a variety of prose selections, including "Democratic
Vistas, Specimen Days," and "Slang in America."
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