

Resource Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Leaves of Grass (1855) background complete edition page images Copy from the University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Collectors Reprints facsimile of 1855 ” by Ed Folsom Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Unlike most poems at the time, which relied on religious symbolism and allegory, Leaves of Grass concentrated on exalting the body and the material world. SeptemReview “In and Out of Books” by Lewis Nichols The New York Times, New York, NY The original volume was a small book of twelve poems, while the final version was a compilation of more than four hundred. About the book: Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life.

Review "New Publisher to Bow" The New York Times, New York, NY Leaves of Grass (1855), a poetry collection by American author and poet Walt Whitman, was rewritten and reissued multiple times during Whitman’s lifetime.
