Leaves Of Grass
- Author: Dennis Wells
- Narrator: Geoffroy Geo
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Duration: 19:03:29
Synopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.
In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.
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 Leaves of Grass as “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.”
The text presented here is that of the “Deathbed” or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, 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.
With a foreword by Billy Collins, an afterword by Peter Davison, and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink
Chapters
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chapter 21
Duration: 40min -
chapter 22
Duration: 46min -
chapter 23
Duration: 15min -
chapter 24
Duration: 35min -
chapter 25
Duration: 48min -
chapter 26
Duration: 43min -
chapter 27
Duration: 12min -
chapter 28
Duration: 19min -
chapter 29
Duration: 27min -
chapter 30
Duration: 39min -
chapter 31
Duration: 14min -
chapter 32
Duration: 50min -
chapter 33
Duration: 37min -
chapter 34
Duration: 48min -
chapter 35
Duration: 28min -
chapter 36
Duration: 34s