num_pages: 432
description: Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante. 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 metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme &amp; using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual &amp; physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the `most extraordinary piece of wit &amp; wisdom that America has yet contributed'. A century later it's his judgement of this autobiographical vision of the vigor of the American nation that has proved the more enduring. This is the most up-to-date edition for student use, with full critical apparatus.
language: English
title: Leaves of Grass
titlecomplete: Leaves of Grass
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Philosophy, Classic Literature, American, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 104076
places: New York City, New York, Washington, D.C.
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Signet Classics