Leaves of Grass

<B>Enjoy Walt Whitman's classic poetry collection, <i>Leaves of Grass</i>, in this beautiful gift format with printed page edges.</B><BR><BR>Walt Whitman's <i>Leaves of Grass</i> is a clarion call to his country's people to join together in the "crowning growth of the United States". Its patriotic zeal made him a symbol of democracy in his country long before he achieved fame there as a poet.<BR><BR>The intense emotion of Whitman's verse celebrates the regenerative power of nature and the immortal divinity of the human soul. His passionate beliefs are evident throughout this volume - in the radical "I Sing the Body Electric"; the patriotic "I Hear America Singing"; and the romantic "As if a Phantom Caress'd Me".<BR><BR>This collection (the so-called "deathbed" edition of 1892) represents the culmination of Whitman's life's work and contains more than 400 poems.