Name: Leaves of Grass
SKU: 56172989
Price: 310.00 ZAR
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Author: Whitman, Walt ; Esherick, Wharton
ISBN: 9781441341495

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Illustrated by

Wharton Esherick

Publisher

Peter Pauper Press Inc.

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

19.5x12.2x2 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN13

9781441341495

Synopsis "Leaves of Grass"

Delight in the work that forever changed the course of American poetry. At time of publication, Walt Whitman's modern and ecstatic free-verse poems shocked, enraged, and delighted critics for its celebration of physical pleasures and the human body. Throughout his life, Whitman continuously revised and republished Leaves of Grass, but the 1855 original, reproduced in this elegant gift edition, showcases his dramatic entrance into the world of poetry. Featuring art by Wharton Esherick. 176 pages. Gold gilded edges. Hardcover. 4-1/2" wide x 7-1/2" high (11.4 cm wide x 19.1 cm high).

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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