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Leaves of Grass

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A photograph of the influential 19th-century US poet, Walt Whitman. Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855) is an expansive free-verse collection celebrating liberty, individuality, and sexuality.

Collection of poems by US poet Walt Whitman, published anonymously in 1855 and augmented through many editions up to 1892. With its long lines, ‘barbaric yawp’ metre, and all-embracing, mythic ambition, the book exercised a major influence on US verse. See also ‘Song of Myself’.



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Well, as Whitman writes in the very first poem in Leaves of Grass, "One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
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