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  • Published: 28 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984897558
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $34.00
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Leaves of Grass




In 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing Leaves of Grass as one of the central works in the history of world poetry. This edition reproduces the magnificent "death-bed edition," published in 1892 a mere two months before Whitman's death at the age of seventy-two.

  • Published: 28 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984897558
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $34.00
Categories:

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About the author

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. Although controversial upon publication, Whitman's great work, Leaves of Grass, is considered one of the most influential works in the American canon.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.

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