Search for your favourite author or book

Leaves of Grass

ISBN 
9780241303122
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R380.00
Published 
October 2017
About the book: 

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers. In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.

Other titles by this author 

Others also viewed

Dr. Eric Westman, Director of Duke University Keto Medicine Clinic, and world-renowned chef Scott...
Shall we take an umbrella... or evacuate the city? The Weather Machine  is about a...
Offering practical advice and techniques, this book helps you to learn how to get out of a mental...
Discover the many wonders of the hedgehog: a funny, charming creature of the countryside....