num_pages: 427
description: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass took various forms during the poet's lifetime. The 1855 first edition was a thin pamphlet of 12 poems; the great final edition encompassed more than 300. It is the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass--commonly called "the Deathbed Edition" that remains the bard's definitive version of what is indisputably an American classic. In Leaves of Grass , Whitman abandoned traditional Victorian poetic forms and language, handled decidedly unconventional subjects and themes, and evoked so personal a tone and so candid a voice that the book offended the few people who read it in the first edition. Only Ralph Waldo Emerson hailed Whitman "at the beginning of a great career." Today Whitman is revered for his accomplishment, and many of his poems are admired as among America's the exquisite personal meditation of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ; the celebration of the human body and spirit in Song of Myself ; the paeans to companionship of the Calamus poems; and the landmark elegy for Abraham Lincoln, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd . Throughout Leaves of Grass we glimpse the sublime beauty of the natural world and feel Whitman's loving embrace of the common man.
language: English
title: Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition
titlecomplete: Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition
genres: American, Philosophy, School, Poetry, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 104051
places: New York City, New York, Washington, D.C.
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Book-of-the-Month Club