Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman; Peter Davison (Afterword by)
(Signet Classics, Mass Market Paperback, 9780451527585, 528pp.)

Publication Date: March 1, 2000

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Mass Market Paperback

Categories: American - General

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Here are the incomparable poems of one of America's greatest poets. Singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire, this was Walt Whitman, the man Thoreau called "probably the greatest democrat that ever lived". The content and grouping of this newly typeset edition is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.



About the Author

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.

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