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by Walt Former Owner Whitman (Author)
Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass to be "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." This "Death-Bed" edition by American publisher Yellow Leaf Press is the final version of Leaves of Grass. First published in 1892, Whitman's Leaves of Grass remains one of the greatest books in American literature and among the most popular poetry books in the world.
To poet Ezra Pound, Whitman was "America's poet... He is America." Inspiring both youth and older generations while also being ridiculed at the time for being explicit in language and subject matter, Leaves of Grass remains a true representation of the raw American spirit that lives to this day in the United States. According to the Poetry Foundation, Whitman is "America's world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare."
This "Death-Bed" edition by Yellow Leaf Press also adds a biography and historical context about Whitman's compiling of Leaves of Grass over his lifetime.
Note: This edition is unabridged and uncensored.
