ID3 TALB Leaves of GrassTPE1 Walt Whitman/Mel FosterTCOP Tantor MediaTCON FictionTIT2 Leaves of Grass - Part 01TRCK 1COMM ENG
From one of America's best loved and most important poets comes what is considered by many to be the greatest collection of poetry ever produced by an American.
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass initially consisted of a preface, twelve untitled poems in free verse (including the work later titled "Song of Myself," which Malcolm Cowley called "one of the great poems of modern times"), and a now-famous portrait of a devil-may-care Walt Whitman in a workman's shirt. Over the next four decades, Whitman continually expanded and revised the book as he took on the role of a workingman's bard who championed...TLEN
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