TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitman,Walt
TI  - Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass: the first (1855) edition 
T2  - Penguin classics deluxe edition
SN  - 014303927X
AV  - PS3201 1855e 2005
U1  - 811/.3 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - American poetry
N1  - "First published in the United States of America by Rome Brothers 1855"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xl)
N2  - "Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading ["Leaves of Grass"], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."--Syndetics
ER  -