num_pages: 144
description: The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Lucidly, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense.... Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world .... Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.
language: English
title: Essential Whitman
titlecomplete: Essential Whitman (Essential Poets)
genres: Classics, Poetry
ratings_count: 83
publisher: Ecco