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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I hated "Leaves of Grass" when I was an English major in college. Over the many intervening years I have grown to appreciate Whitman's work more and more. I know it was just me, but I had to grow up to realize the genius of his words. This book is a beautiful meditation on life and death. I try to read bits of it regularly to keep me focused on the beauty of nature and the nature of all things...birth-life-death-birth, etc... rare books 1921 My favorite Whitman piece is "To You, Whoever You Are". This poem is not included in the 1855 edition of Leaves Of Grass. This is the only reason I am not giving it 5 stars. And it's no fault of Walt's. Not even my own, I just felt I needed to own this edition. Surely I will procure the deathbed edition in due time and while some more hours away in the sunshine reading his genius. I love Walt Whitman, period. 0.072 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060956976, Paperback)Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading [Leaves of Grass], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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- All men are brothers. The book celebrates the common man, and embraces the man that society has cast out or looked down upon.
- Delight and oneness with nature. Delight in the small things in nature.
- Spirituality achieved not by subjugating the senses or pleasures but by embracing them, and living life to the fullest.
- The belief in the innate power, spirituality, and goodness of man.
All of this is done in a very natural, unpretentious way ... I believe Whitman was truly inspired when he initially wrote this book, and was not regurgitating someone else's philosophy or metaphysics.
There are so many wonderful passages and quotes, maybe someday I'll include some here but for now I'll just say I highly, highly recommend this book.
Read it outside, under a tree. (