Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman & Afterword by Peter Davison & Foreword by Billy Collins

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855 an answer came with Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass. Today this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of Americas greatest poetsan exuberant passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.