{"product_id":"leaves-of-grass-4","title":"Leaves of Grass","description":"\u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman's \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe text presented here is that of the \"Deathbed\" or ninth edition of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48845498876109,"sku":"9780451419170","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_385c4086-ad35-4aab-904e-d44effc59699.jpg?v=1792776497","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/leaves-of-grass-4","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}