Call number
811 WHI
Collection
Publication
Rinehart & Company (1955)
Description
Contains an introduction by Lawrence Buell.
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LibraryThing member JBreedlove
Truly remarkable book. From a time when thinkers, ponderers, and wonderers had time to think and write Whitman evoked thoughts and feelings from deep within in his Leaves of Grass. It seemed like a sentimental good-bye to pastoral America while recognizes the rush of forces that was to come. His
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selected prose was a look at another time so different yet with people's lives so similar to our own. It took two years of bathroom reading to finish this and it was well worth the effort. Show Less