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In 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing Leaves of Grass as one of the central works in the history of world poetry. This edition reproduces the magnificent "death-bed edition," published in 1892 a mere two months before Whitman's death at the age of seventy-two.

Book Details

Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9781984897558
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
576
Authors:
Walt Whitman
Published Date:
2019-05-28
Language:
English

About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) was born in West Hills, on Long Island, New York, and is regarded as the father of free verse in American poetry. His collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855 and revised across multiple editions through his lifetime, contains Song of Myself, I Sing the Body Electric, and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, his elegy for Abraham Lincoln. He worked as a journalist, teacher, and government clerk, and volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War, an experience reflected in his collection Drum-Taps (1865). He died in Camden, New Jersey.

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