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Penguin Classics: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass

The First (1855) Edition


  • Penguin Classics
  • by Walt Whitman
As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience.

ISBN 9780140421996 | E | PB
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Publisher Penguin Classics
ISBN 9780140421996
Author(s) Walt Whitman
Publication date November 2013
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 199 x 130 mm
Pages 192
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience.' Mr Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars, faithfully edited it, added his own introduction and Whitman's original introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman's life), and returned it to the common readership to whom the great poet really speaks.