"Leaves of Grass" - Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass: The First 1855 Edition by Walt Whitman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I feel richer today having finished this piece of great American prose. The historians, the critics are all correct, this is a masterpiece.

Whitman opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the American experiment, but of all things great and small, and to those things that lie between the greatest and smallest. It is poetic without a doubt, but also very personal. This I was surprised by, but affected all the more.

I would have loved to have read this in 1855, but I think it is just as provoking today and probably will be for centuries.

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