Leaves of Grass

These are the incomparable poems of one of America's greatest poets - an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no ther has ever done. Singer, thinker, visionary and citizen extraordinary, this was Walt Whitman. Thoreau called Whitman "probably the greatest democrat that ever lived" and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as "the most extraordianry piece of wit and widsom America has yet contributed"

The text of this Signet Classic edition of Leaves of Grass of the "Death-Bed" or ninth edition, which was published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is that authorized by the poet for the final anf complete edition of his masterpiece

Author: Walt Whitman

Publisher: A Signet Classic

Released Date: 1958