When Walt Whitman self-published the original twelve poems the world has come to know as Leaves of Grass in 1855, it was not well-received. Perhaps if Ralph Waldo Emerson, a like-minded Transcendentalist, had not deemed it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has now contributed,"
Poetic Form: Leaning on Many Leaves
Poetic Form: Leaning on Many Leaves
Poetic Form: Leaning on Many Leaves
When Walt Whitman self-published the original twelve poems the world has come to know as Leaves of Grass in 1855, it was not well-received. Perhaps if Ralph Waldo Emerson, a like-minded Transcendentalist, had not deemed it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has now contributed,"