{"product_id":"leaves-of-grass-mass-market-paperbound-1","title":"Leaves of Grass - Mass Market Paperbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman's \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets--an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman \"probably the greatest democrat that ever lived,\" and Emerson judged \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe text presented here is that of the \"Deathbed\" or ninth edition of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378184913119,"sku":"9780451419170","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/txbieLVlXc9780451419170.webp?v=1789250796","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/leaves-of-grass-mass-market-paperbound-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}