false <![CDATA[Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178157293m/765418.jpg 27494 135 Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the `most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed'. A century later it is his judgement of this autobiographical vision of the vigour of the American nation that has proved the more enduring. This is the most up-to-date edition for student use, with full critical apparatus. 28117 1854 Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics) total:9293|5:4155|4:3013|3:1569|2:415|1:141| 9293 38505 12339 508 4 8 false false Tue Sep 11 16:14:29 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 17:21:24 -0700 2007 "Thi...more...]]> 3 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 14:04:33 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 24 20:15:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sun Jul 29 20:32:50 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 08:46:52 -0700 2007 Leaves of Grass. It was pure literary rapture.

I highly recommend Leaves of Grass to everyone - especially those who still believe, or want to believe, in the basic goodness of the American Experiment. ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 10:22:51 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 07:54:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 11:41:59 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 07:54:11 -0700 2009
I wa...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 28 09:40:23 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 18:49:25 -0800 2008 are in the presence of one of those contradic-
tions, or rather, unifications, which make him in
a certain sense a Hegelian poet. He sings of the
body when he means to sing of the soul simply
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There are many editions of LEAVES; the 1892 'deathbed' edition (Whitman was knocking on Heaven's door when he was editing it) is one I've never been able to finish, mainly because it's just so. . .voluminous. Many poems for the ages there, but ju...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Wed Mar 12 16:35:57 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 16:35:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 26 06:54:02 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 07:21:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 15 16:42:18 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 16:42:54 -0700 2007

PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me, as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall’d as we flit by each oth...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 20:28:05 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 23:53:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 29 07:19:55 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 05:55:17 -0700 2007
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In reading the review, it dawned on me that it had been years since I ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 16:10:41 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 16:46:14 -0800 2008 Thousands. And I'm not kidding. more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 08 08:06:55 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:07:18 -0700 2009
Leaves of Grass speaks to the turbulent times in which Whitman lived, bei...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 27 20:06:54 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:43:49 -0700 2009 *********************************************************************
5 Stars: This book is a timeless classic and undisputed member of the literary canon. I read and loved it.

4 Stars: This book is a personal classic. A book I am happy to read agai...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Oct 26 18:19:23 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 18:25:04 -0700 2009 He was the first poet I ever really loved to read. I didn't understand everything, but I could find snippets here and there that struck me as beautiful.
Every now and then I sti...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Dec 07 14:43:12 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 11:50:15 -0800 2008 Countless http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=765418