Leaves of grass
Subtitle: the first (1855) edition
By: Walt Whitman ; introduction by Harold Bloom.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Description: "Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading ["Leaves of Grass"], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be." - Syndetics.