Series: Book 10 in the 诗词 series
Tags: [ZDC:SGSW, ZDC:WGWX, CNTY:USA, Lang:en]
Summary:
WHEN Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass
in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One
of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it
redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of
the American character.
THROUGHOUT his great career, Whitman continuously
revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but as
Harold Bloom reminds us, the book that matters most is the
1855 original. In celebration of the poem's 150th
anniversary, Penguin Classics proudly presents the 1855 text
in its original and complete form, with a specially
commissioned introductory essay by Harold Bloom.
I celebrate myself, and sing
myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good
belongs to you.
"Whitman,
the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman the one man
breaking a way ahead. Whitman the one pioneer . . . Ahead of
Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the
wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him,
none."
D. H.
Lawrence
