Leaves Of Grass
Author: Whitman, Walt
ISBN: 9780241303122
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 188mm x 118mm x 21mm
Format: Hardback
Description
A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets
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.
ISBN: 9780241303122
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 188mm x 118mm x 21mm
Format: Hardback
Description
A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets
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.
