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Leaves of Grass (Literary Classics)
by Walt Whitman,Prometheus Books
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Paperback 419 pages / Prometheus Books / 1995-09-01 / listprice: $11.00
ISBN: 1573920401
Product Dimentions: 8.49 x 5.51 x 0.97 inches
Product Weight: 112 ounces
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LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman`s monumental and enormously influential book, was his life`s work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous deathbed edition published the year he died (1892). Influenced by Eastern religions, his years as a journalist, the Civil War, 19th-century expansionism, Nature, the theater and opera, and his own liberal sexual attitudes, LEAVES OF GRASS is both a document set firmly in its time and a great transcendent work of art. It is also one of the most popular and accessible books of poems ever written, beloved since its first publication.
I believe this is the fourth edition (like that guy who keeps remaking film versions of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Walt Whitman had just the one book all his life that he kept redoing. Still, it was enough to earn the man a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike, so don't say poetry doesn't pay.)
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