Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

by Susan Belasco, Kenneth Price, Ed Folsom

This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector's item, this edition is now viewed as the poet's most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy. The essays weave a rich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803260008
• ISBN13: 9780803260009
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 503 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"