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LEAVES OF GRASS - WALT WHITMAN KARTONIERT (TB)

One of the great innovative figures in American letters  Walt Whitman created a daringly new
kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book.
First published in 1855 with only twelve poems  it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as the
wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet
contributed. Over the course of Whitman's life  the book reappeared in many versions  expanded
and transformed as the author's experiences and the nation's history changed and grew.
Whitman's ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems
have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking to the joyous
freedom of Song of Myself  I Sing the Body Electric  and Song of the Open Road  Whitman's work
lives on  an inspiration to the poets of latergenerations.

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