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Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Boy Electric," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.

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  • Walt Whitman's 52-section "Song Of Myself" is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855
  • Whitman's book of Civil War poems "Drum-Taps" later became a part of this larger collection
  • Threats of prosecution for the use of explicit language delayed an 1881 edition of this Walt Whitman collection
  • Emerson called this book "The most extra-ordinary piece of wit and wisdom" America has yet contributed
  • Although published as a separate volume in 1865, Whitman's "Drum-taps" was later included in this work
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman that this book was a "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom"
  • In a poem in this 1855 collection, the author introduced himself as "Walt Whitman, an American"
  • "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" first appeared in the second edition of this Whitman collection
  • In his preface to this work, Walt Whitman said, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem"
  • Poems. This 1855 collection. First edition include "I Sing The Body Electric". Tarzan note simple, natural style
  • Cather took the title "O Pioneers!" from a poem by Walt Whitman that appeared in this collection

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