Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World.
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A century later it is his judgement of this autobiographical vision of the vigour of the American nation that has proved the more enduring.
Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the `most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed'.
In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular.
Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World
