Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

by Whitman, Walt; Reynolds, David S.

• ISBN13: 9780195183429
• ISBN10: 0195183428
• Edition: 150th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature.

Author Biography

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among his many books are Walt Whitman (part of Oxford's Lives and Legacies series), Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Beneath the American Renaissance, winner of the Christian Gauss Award. A regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, he lives in Old Westbury, New York.

Table of Contents

Leaves of Grass	p. vii
Afterword	p. 85
Reviews of the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass	p. 107
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letter to Walt Whitman	p. 161
Walt Whitman's Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson	p. 161
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