Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman''s Leaves of Grass 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.

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".

This collection (the so-called "deathbed" edition of 1892) represents the culmination of Whitman''s life''s work and contains more than 400 poems.