Whitman threw down a challengeto the genteel readers of Tennyson and Longfellow through poems of sexual and emotional daring. LEAVES OF GRASS was hailed as the "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."
- ISBN10 0814729894
- ISBN13 9780814729892
- Publish Date December 1984
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint New York University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Language English