Leaves of Grass - Mass Market Paperbound
by Walt Whitman
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bantam ClassicsISBN-13:9780553211160ISBN-10:553211161UPC:9780553211160Book Category:Poetry, FictionBook Subcategory:American, Classics, Subjects & ThemesSize:7.30 x 4.46 x 1.16 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCKWZZ48A8
Leaves of Grass
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Over the...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bantam ClassicsISBN-13:9780553211160ISBN-10:553211161UPC:9780553211160Book Category:Poetry, FictionBook Subcategory:American, Classics, Subjects & ThemesSize:7.30 x 4.46 x 1.16 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCKWZZ48A8
Before the age of thirty-six there was no sign that Walt Whitman would become even a minor literary figure, let alone the major poetic voice of an emerging America. Born in 1819 on Long Island, he was the second son of a carpenter and contractor. His formal schooling ended at age eleven, when he was apprenticed to a printer in Brooklyn. He became a journeyman printer in 1835 and spent the next...
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