Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass : the first (1855) edition /
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass : the first (1855) edition / introduction by Harold Bloom. - 150th anniversary edition. - xl, 160 pages ; 23 cm - Penguin classics deluxe edition . - Penguin classics deluxe edition .
"First published in the United States of America by Rome Brothers 1855"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xl).
"Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading ["Leaves of Grass"], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."--Syndetics.
014303927X 9780143039273
2005047641
American poetry
PS3201 / 1855e 2005
811/.3
Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass : the first (1855) edition / introduction by Harold Bloom. - 150th anniversary edition. - xl, 160 pages ; 23 cm - Penguin classics deluxe edition . - Penguin classics deluxe edition .
"First published in the United States of America by Rome Brothers 1855"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xl).
"Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading ["Leaves of Grass"], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."--Syndetics.
014303927X 9780143039273
2005047641
American poetry
PS3201 / 1855e 2005
811/.3