Leaves of Grass
| Description |
Leaves of Grass had its genesis in an 1844 essay entitled “The Poet,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the young country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call and drafted the twelve poems that make up this book. He spent much of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—from this first small book to the final edition of a massive compilation of over 400 poems. |
| Author/Photographer |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 |
| Publisher |
Brooklyn, New York: Walt Whitman; Printed by Rome Brothers |
| Date |
1855 |
| Extent |
xii, [13]-95, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 29 cm |
| Institution |
Kent State University |
| Repository |
Special Collections and Archives |
| Provenance/Collection |
From the library of A. Edward Newton |
| LC Classification Number |
PS3201 1855 |
| Portion Digitized |
Image of front cover only |
| Access Rights |
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| Duplication Policy |
http://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/duplication-policy |
| DPLA Rights Statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Format of Original |
book |
Credits
Curated by Kathleen Siebert Medicus with guest contributors