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First published in 1855, "Leaves of Grass" is a poetry collection by American author and poet Walt Whitman that was rewritten and reissued multiple times during Whitman’s lifetime.
The poems are loosely connected, representing Whitman’s celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. The book of poems explores the theme of delight in sensual pleasures at a time when candid displays of pleasure were considered immoral. Unlike most poems at the time, which relied on religious symbolism and allegory, "Leaves of Grass" concentrated on exalting the body and the material world.
Heavily influenced by the Transcendentalist movement and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poems fuse praise of the human form and the human mind.
The format of the poems shifts radically, and does not tend to follow standard rules for meter and line length.
Highly controversial upon its release due to its explicit sexual imagery, the book was panned by most poetry critics during Whitman’s lifetime. However, it has become one of the most enduring works of American poetry, still widely read and studied today as one of Whitman’s defining works.
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GenrePoetry, Literary Classics, Biography and Memoir
Length17 hrs 14 mins
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Publish dateDec 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
26Thou Reader
2Book I: Inscriptions
27Book II
3One's-self I Sing
28Starting From Paumanok
4As I Ponder'd in Silence
29Book III
5In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
30Song of Myself
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6To Foreign Lands
31Book IV: Children of Adam
7To a Historian
32To the Garden the World
8To Thee Old Cause
33From Pent-up Aching Rivers
9Eidolons
34I Sing the Body Electric
10For Him I Sing
35A Woman Waits for Me
11When I Read the Book
36Spontaneous Me
12Beginning My Studies
37One Hour to Madness and Joy
13Beginners
38Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
14To the States
39Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
15On Journeys Through the States
40We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
16To a Certain Cantatrice
41O Hymen! O Hymenee!
17Me Imperturbe
42I Am He That Aches With Love
18Savantism
43Native Moments
19The Ship Starting
44Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
20I Hear America Singing
45I Heard You Solemn-sweet Pipes of the Organ
21What Place is Besieged?
46Facing West From California's Shores
22Still Though the One I Sing
47As Adam Early in the Morning
23Shut Not Your Doors
48Book V: Calamus
24Poets to Come
49In Paths Untrodden
25To You
50Scented Herbage of My Breast
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