Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
(Author)
Description
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades-the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems.
Product Details
Price
$13.99
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publish Date
April 27, 2015
Pages
332
Dimensions
8.5 X 11.0 X 0.69 inches | 1.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781511931823
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was the son of a carpenter. His formal schooling ended at age eleven, when he was apprenticed to a printer in Brooklyn. He spent the next two decades as a printer, freelance writer, and editor in New York. In 1855, at his own expense, he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which would mark him as the major poetic voice of an emerging America. Whitman would go on expanding and revising it for the rest of his life, with the final edition appearing in 1892, the year of his death.