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Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition

By Walt Whitman

Book information

Publisher
Modern Library
Year
1993
ISBN
0679600760, 9780679600763
LCC
PS3201 1993
Open Library ID
OL1403032M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
591 kB (605206 bytes)
Pages
736\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short, early versions, this Modern Library Paperback Classics "Death-bed" edition presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form, and includes newly commissioned notes.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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