num_pages: 200
description: Whitman threw down a challengeto the genteel readers of Tennyson and Longfellow through poems of sexual and emotional daring. LEAVES OF GRASS was hailed as the "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."
language: English
title: Selected Poems by Walt Whitman
titlecomplete: Selected Poems by Walt Whitman (American Poetry)
genres: Classics, Adult, Anthologies, The United States Of America, Poetry Plays, Poetry, Literature, 19th Century, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2356
publisher: Castle Books