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    <body><![CDATA[This work has a lot more of Whitman than one is traditionally exposed to in high school.  There are poems about masturbation, about homosexuality, about sexuality.  There are also early works celebrating New York, the everyman, and of course Lincoln.  Informative essays in the back of the work flesh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15114273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What makes this edition of Library of America Editions valuable is that they have reprinted the original versions in the front and the reworked and expanded versions which is about 2/3 of the anthology.  I hadn't realised that Whitman had revised as much as he did.<br/>A must own.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is the only edition you will ever need. Keep it near at all times.<br/><br/>O me! O life . . .  of the questions of these recurring; <br/>Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; <br/>Of  myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65891769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are absolutely not enough words with enough quantitative meaning between humans to express how much I ADORE WALT WHITMAN!<br/><br/>I was so lucky to be able to take a graduate level English course dedicated exclusively to his poetry.<br/><br/>To sing ourselves and celebrate ourselves, my u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23713667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cherish this book.  If I had to choose only one book to read for the rest of life, this might be the one I would choose.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Song of myself and leaves of grass are unparalleled. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I own the LOA hardcover edition of this; I'm sure the paperback is identical, or close enough to it. Ideal for the reader who's new to the universe of perception and beauty that is Whitman. Look at all the 5-star ratings given here! That should tell you something. Lie down in &quot;Leaves of Grass&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6567978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best Whitman book to own, and a good collection of his best works - which is just about everything he wrote.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Right now he is my favorite poet.  Just an all American man who really lived his life to the fullest and helped many people along the way.  Love all of his work.  His poetry really makes you feel the way he felt when he wrote it.  He had a love of nature (esp. birds) like no other.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I also have a 1931 edition of <em>Leaves of Grass</em> that's pretty bitchin'.  That's where I read it for the first time.  Still need to go through this collection and reread though.<br/><br/>8/18/08: Reading <em>Specimen Days</em> now.  It's great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what can I say?  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146107.The_Shooting_Star_The_Adventures_of_Tintin_" title="The Shooting Star (The Adventures of Tintin) by Georges Remi Hergé">a shooting star</a> I want to reach out and grab]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't love Whitman, but I did find more of him to like this time around--mostly the things that come after &quot;Song of Myself.&quot;  Good job on the singing and celebrating, though, WW.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whitman captured me from the first line &quot;I celebrate myself.&quot;   Whitman's ability to unite with nature and the people around him brought me to a unification of my own.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I can't claim to have read all of it, Leaves of Grass is great.  Whitman's prose works are also quite good, particularly &quot;Democratic Vistas.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can see why Nicholas Sparks uses Whitman as his inspiration. His poems are music for the eyes, especially the female eyes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[haven't read all of it...but song of myself makes me tremble]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jerrod gave me this years ago, and I still need to read it...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whitman shatters and increases my spirit all at once.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The end all and be all.  Whitman makes my blood dance.]]></body>
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