Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.
The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece..
The text presented here is that of the Deathbed or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass , published in 1892.
Thoreau called Whitman probably the greatest democrat that ever lived, and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.
Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire.
Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America\'s greatest poets--an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.
In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman\'s Leaves of Grass .
Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience
