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LEAVES OF GRASS - WALT WHITMAN KARTONIERT (TB)

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades 
Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could
capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation  while celebrating at the same
time "Nature without check with original energy".  Famously written in free verse and brimming
with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms  and containing
celebrated poems such as the ebullient 'Song of Myself' - described by Jay Parini as the
greatest American poem ever written - and the elegiac 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom'd'  Leaves of Grass is not only the finest achievement of a highly unique poet  but a
founding text for American literature and modern poetry.  Considered one of the most
influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse  Walt Whitman (1819-92)
was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time  his sprawling
collection Leaves of Grass is regarded as his magnum opus.

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