Leaves Of Grass

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's audacious, evolving poetic testament to the body, the soul, democracy, labor, sexuality, death, and the vast plural life of America. Written largely in expansive free verse, its long-breathed cadences reject conventional meter in favor of biblical resonance, oratorical sweep, and intimate address. Emerging in the mid-nineteenth century, the collection stands at the threshold of American literary modernity, transforming Romantic selfhood into a collective, natio ...