Leaves Of Grass
$30.83
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2019
Summary
On the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, a Vintage Classics edition of his revolutionary poetic masterpiece.
In 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing Leaves of Grass as one of the central wo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781984897558 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1984897551 |
| Author: | Walt Whitman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 147mm x 264mm x 344mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
“Whitman’s best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years.” –Malcolm Cowley
“Whitman’s best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years.” –Malcolm Cowley
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. Born on Long Island, he was educated in Brooklyn, New York. He worked as a teacher, government clerk, and journalist, and volunteered as a nurse caring for wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
John Hollander was the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.
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