The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience - was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world.

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Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Häftad
Författare: Walt Whitman
Förlag: Penguin USA
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 208 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 144x212x15 mm
Vikt: 232 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780143039273
SKU: 707138