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Leaves of Grass (Signet Classics)

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Leaves of Grass (Signet Classics)

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.
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Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of Americaâ€™s greatest poetsâ€”an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt WhitmanÂ was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman â€œprobably the greatest democrat that ever lived,â€ and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as â€œthe most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.â€
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The text presented here is that of the â€œDeathbedâ€ or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.
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With a foreword by Billy Collins, an afterword by Peter Davison, and a new introduction byÂ Elisabeth Panttaja Brink
Country USA
Brand Signet
Manufacturer Signet
Binding Mass Market Paperback
Color Cream
IsAdultProduct
Height 6.69
Length 4.19
Weight 0.5401325419
Width 1.08
ReleaseDate 2013-11-05
NumberOfItems 1

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