Leaves of Grass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781976596414)

The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it.

Author: Mybook,Walt Whitman
ISBN-10: 1976596416
ISBN-13: 9781976596414
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2017
Pages: 700
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d