Leaves Of Grass
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few works in the canon of American literature have shaken the foundations of poetry quite like Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman's revolutionary, lifelong masterpiece that burst onto the literary scene in 1855 and transformed the very language of verse. The collection chronicles the poet's sprawling, democratic vision of America, centering on the expansive Song of Myself, in which Whitman presents himself as both an individual and a universal everyman, celebrating the body, the soul, nature, and the teeming multitudes of a young nation with breathtaking, unrestrained energy. Written in bold, cadenced free verse that shattered the formal conventions of the era, it is a work of radical intimacy and cosmic ambition, inviting the reader into a direct, almost physical communion with both the poet and the world he inhabits. Whitman's genius lies in his capacity to hold contradictions in magnificent tension — the spiritual and the sensual, the solitary self and the collective, the mortal and the eternal — and Leaves of Grass remains the definitive monument to that vision. This Canterbury Classics edition, complete with an introduction by Ken Mondschein, PhD, offers both the seasoned reader and the newcomer a richly grounded entry point into a text that has never ceased to provoke, inspire, and astonish. To read Whitman is to ask, as he demands of us, who we are — and whether we are large enough to contain multitudes.
Author: Walt Whitman
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few works in the canon of American literature have shaken the foundations of poetry quite like Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman's revolutionary, lifelong masterpiece that burst onto the literary scene in 1855 and transformed the very language of verse. The collection chronicles the poet's sprawling, democratic vision of America, centering on the expansive Song of Myself, in which Whitman presents himself as both an individual and a universal everyman, celebrating the body, the soul, nature, and the teeming multitudes of a young nation with breathtaking, unrestrained energy. Written in bold, cadenced free verse that shattered the formal conventions of the era, it is a work of radical intimacy and cosmic ambition, inviting the reader into a direct, almost physical communion with both the poet and the world he inhabits. Whitman's genius lies in his capacity to hold contradictions in magnificent tension — the spiritual and the sensual, the solitary self and the collective, the mortal and the eternal — and Leaves of Grass remains the definitive monument to that vision. This Canterbury Classics edition, complete with an introduction by Ken Mondschein, PhD, offers both the seasoned reader and the newcomer a richly grounded entry point into a text that has never ceased to provoke, inspire, and astonish. To read Whitman is to ask, as he demands of us, who we are — and whether we are large enough to contain multitudes.