Leaves of Grass

Name: Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt Whitman

by Walt Whitman

Poetic celebration of democracy, individualism, and American spiritual ideals

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Walt Whitman

American poet whose Leaves of Grass, published in multiple editions from 1855, created a new kind of poetry: expansive, democratic, physically exuberant, and frankly sexual. Song of Myself is his masterwork.

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