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Leaves of Grass

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4 out of 5
Based on 13,458 Ratings and 749 Reviews

Book Description
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
PublisherOxford University Press Inc
BindingPaperback (256 editions)
Reading LevelYoung Adults
# of Pages512
ISBN-100199539006
ISBN-13978-0199539000
Publication Date02/15/2009
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About Walt Whitman (Author) : Walt Whitman is a published author and an editor of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Walt Whitman include The Greatest American Poetry, Song of Myself, El Astro... more
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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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4/11/2010 Bruce Stacy said: Written by ann ancestor (cousin)
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1/15/2008 Amanda Jackson said: "Song of Myself" may be the best work of poetry ever.

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