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Walt Whitman

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In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature.
This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses. Featured works include “I Hear America Singing,” “I Sing the Body Electric,” “Song of the Open Road,” “Out of Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,” and “O Captain! My Captain!”—all reprinted from an authoritative text.
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128 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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Quotes

  • Ofelia Rhas quoted3 years ago
    Camerado, I give you my hand!
    I give you my love more precise than money,
    I give you myself before preaching or law;
    Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
    Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
  • Ofelia Rhas quoted3 years ago
    My call is the call of battle, I nourish active rebellion,
  • Ofelia Rhas quoted3 years ago
    Behold through you as bad as the rest,
    Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,
    Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash’d and trimm’d faces,
    Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.

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