Leaves of Grass
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Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metered line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson... More
Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback (256 editions) |
Reading Level | Young Adults |
# of Pages | 512 |
ISBN-10 | 0199539006 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0199539000 |
Publication Date | 02/15/2009 |
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About Jerome M. Loving (Editor) : Jerome M. Loving is a published editor of young adult books. Published credits of Jerome M. Loving include Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics).
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