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In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, the monumental work was condemned as "immoral." Whitman continued evolving Leaves of Grass despite the controversy, growing his influential work decades after its first appearance by adding new poems with each new printing.
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GenrePoetry
Length13 hrs 21 mins
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Publish dateDec 13, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1One's-Self I Sing
26BOOK III
2As I Ponder'd in Silence
27BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
3In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
28From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
4To Foreign Lands
29I Sing the Body Electric
5To a Historian
30A Woman Waits for Me
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6To Thee Old Cause
31Spontaneous Me
7Eidolons
32One Hour to Madness and Joy
8For Him I Sing
33Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
9When I Read the Book
34Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
10Beginning My Studies
35We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
11Beginners
36O Hymen! O Hymenee!
12To the States
37I Am He That Aches with Love
13On Journeys Through the States
38Native Moments
14To a Certain Cantatrice
39Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
15Me Imperturbe
40I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
16Savantism
41Facing West from California's Shores
17The Ship Starting
42As Adam Early in the Morning
18I Hear America Singing
43BOOK V. CALAMUS
19What Place Is Besieged?
44Scented Herbage of My Breast
20Still Though the One I Sing
45Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
21Shut Not Your Doors
46For You, O Democracy
22Poets to Come
47These I Singing in Spring
23To You
48Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only
24Thou Reader
49Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
25BOOK II
50The Base of All Metaphysics
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