{"title":"Poetry","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman","title":"Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bookpage\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, revising it in several editions until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are loosely connected and each represents Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. 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